John Hurt Quotes - Page 3

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• Films don't take as long as people think. 'Harry Potter,' people always used to say, 'Well, my God, do you ever get any time to yourself?' I think I did, in 'Harry Potter,' over a 12 year period I did five days. So it's not exactly exhausting.

  John Hurt

  Thinking, Years, Long

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• There is always a better choice that you were unable to quite touch with a single stroke. Even in acting, there comes a point, like a painting, where you have to say, "That's it. I can't go any further with it." And sometimes, you say, "I'm really pleased that that's where it's finished up." Other times, you think, "I don't think I really quite got there, but I haven't got time to go any further." Rather reluctantly, you have to say "That's it."

  John Hurt

  Thinking, Choices, Acting

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

  John Hurt

  People, Film, Retiring

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

  John Hurt

  Order, Play, Sick

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• If you've got a great crew it's intense, but its quite short. 'The Elephant Man' was longer than most, for an independent film. That was a 14 week film. But it was because of the intrinsic difficulties. We had to invent a different way of filming, because the makeup was so long. A working day for me with a full makeup on was nineteen hours. So obviously you couldn't do that twice running.

  John Hurt

  Running, Independent, Makeup

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• We shot ['Sailcloth'] five days down in Cornwall, and you couldn't have asked for a more beautiful place. It was a couple of tough days at sea, but when I say tough it was still enjoyable.

  John Hurt

  Beautiful, Couple, Sea

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That's where the film-makers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they should have stayed.

  John Hurt

  Independent, Should Have, Matter

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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• If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

  John Hurt

  Mind, Theatre, Cinema

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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• The first film is everything you want to say and how you want to say it. Lots of directors will do that and do it really well, but the second film is not so easy.

  John Hurt

  Directors, Want, Firsts

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• Something like 'Alien,' that was not so easy. If there's any genre I wouldn't mind not having to do anymore, it would be science fiction. It's just all to do with the toys, and there's so much hanging around.

  John Hurt

  Mind, Fiction, Toys

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say "Either you can or you can't."

  John Hurt

  Arrogant

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• I think [ Lars Von Trier] is a fantastic filmmaker. No question. You've got to be ready for him. He's sharp and he's got a sharp tongue and I love that. He doesn't mind it back.

  John Hurt

  Thinking, Mind, Tongue

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• Elephant Man [movie] was much more difficult physically. This had a couple of days. It was quite tricky. I had my leg strapped up behind me and I am a little older now. It was all marvelous, though. He [Bong Joon-ho] is one of the most fabulous directors in the world.

  John Hurt

  Couple, Men, Elephants

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

  John Hurt

  Father, Fields, Certain

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore not knowing quite how to put that on screen.

  John Hurt

  Book, Knowing, People

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.

  John Hurt

  Memories, Film, Favourite

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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• You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form.

  John Hurt

  Thinking, Lazy, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.

  John Hurt

  Two, Directors, Reason

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever.

  John Hurt

  School, Thinking, Talking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

  John Hurt

  Insecure, Thinking, Parent

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• By the very nature of being a clergyman's son, people tend to put you slightly apart, which is - you tend to live a life, at some stages, as being - people being suspicious of you and puts you rather on a - I don't mean lonely, particularly. But it does tend to put you apart.

  John Hurt

  Lonely, Mean, Son

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

  John Hurt

  Moving, Careers, May

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement.

  John Hurt

  Real, School, Catholic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Very, very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons. It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

  John Hurt

  Reason, Obvious

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The British tradition, basically, is to go to the character. And the Hollywood tradition, shall we say, is basically to take the character to the performer.

  John Hurt

  Character, Hollywood, Tradition

  Source: www.npr.org

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