John Hurt Quotes - Page 2

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• You have to learn to cut your cloth accordingly. But it seems to be a human weakness. Once you start making a lot of money, you just join in with everyone else. It's like the banks, and we've seen what happens there.

  John Hurt

  Cutting, Weakness, Humans

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• 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

  Relief, Feels, Tested

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?

  John Hurt

  Optimistic, Character, Doe

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

  John Hurt

  Party, Cowboy, Acting

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

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• I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio...

  John Hurt

  Watches, News, Radio

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

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• You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

  John Hurt

  Wine, Mind, Information

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

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• I do what interests me when I'm invited and do it as well as I know how and try to get better. That's all.

  John Hurt

  Trying, Get Better, Interest

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

  John Hurt

  Jobs, Self, Discipline

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• Some directors involve waiting, and if you want to work with that particular director you're going to have to hang around.

  John Hurt

  Waiting, Directors, Want

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

  John Hurt

  Imagination, Trying, Acting

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The common misconception is that we create films for ourselves. And I really don't do it for myself. I get stopped in the street by people saying, "Do you mind if I say this about your work?" Do I mind? I'm delighted. I do it for you. It's not for me. It's my living, yes, sure.

  John Hurt

  People, Mind, Common

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Developing characters is a collective process, on one hand; it's an individual process on the other. The truth is rarely pure and never simple, as dear Oscar Wilde would say. A great of it, of course, is, you collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

  John Hurt

  Wine, Character, Simple

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The truth is rarely true and never simple.

  John Hurt

  Simple, Truth Is

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Once you've started to dig a hole, you can't get out of it.

  John Hurt

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.

  John Hurt

  People, Looks, Seems

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You carry that through and adapt it to a camera lens, but you're quite right, you cannot be sure of what an audience is going to do. You don't know what's going to happen to the piece you're doing anyway. You don't know how it's going to be edited. There are a lot more unknowns in cinema. But that you have to readily accept. That's when, I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I believe, for what the lens is doing, too.

  John Hurt

  Believe, Thinking, Intuition

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't think in terms of being professional. I didn't know anything about it. That happened later.

  John Hurt

  Mean, Thinking, Soul

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think particularly Daniel [Radcliffe], he knows what he's doing. I'm sure he'll finish up a producer. He really realized what it was, knew the size of it. And it was gigantic, the biggest franchise [Harry Potter] in history.

  John Hurt

  Thinking, Size, Potters

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.

  John Hurt

  Witty, Optimistic, Truthful

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought. It encourages our business to be competitive in absolutely the wrong way. We're not sportsmen; we're not trying to come in first.

  John Hurt

  Nice, Thinking, Giving

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

  John Hurt

  Business, People, Performers

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• I'm really the addition of other peoples' imagination, quite honestly. It's what they see me as, and I'm very happy to comply. I find things are more varied that way.

  John Hurt

  Imagination, Way, Very Happy

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script. There are certain people that are auteurs, and you accept them regardless of whether you see a script or not. But Spielberg is not an auteur.

  John Hurt

  People, Film, Accepting

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I don't like no confusion.

  John Hurt

  Confusion

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• I loved working with [ Lars Von Trier], but I've done two films before, so I was quite used to him.He's a man of incredible moods of course, but he's also a hugely perceptive man, and there's no getting away from that. And he's able to put that perception into something like film, so we're very lucky.

  John Hurt

  Men, Two, Perception

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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