"I prefer to take actors and put them in real settings and real locations and real situations rather than create artificial locations that serve the characters. It's just much easier when you are walking down the street with your actors to do that in a real street that's still open with people on it, rather than to close it off and bring in extras."

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Source : Source: www.indiewire.com

Michael Winterbottom

#Real Quotes #Character Quotes #People Quotes

“Delicious foods are drugs that will inflame the gut and rot the bones, but there is no harm if one eats moderately. Delightful things are all purveyors of destruction and decadence, but there is no regret if one enjoys them moderately.”
“With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.”
“There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.”
“How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness.”
“Can it be entirely accidental that the most famous fictional spy of them all, James Bond, Number 007, deadly marksman, intriguer, the ultimate man behind the curtain, sexual athlete and ruthless patriot, is also a Scot, as was the author, whose wish-fulfilment he was?”

Source : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.132, Yale University Press
“Our great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable to me that we have children and families going hungry!”
“Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”
“The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.”

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