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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'

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With 'Urban Secrets,' I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

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Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it.

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Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.

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I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

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I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

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Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

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You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

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I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

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I'm not a fan of Twitter.

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Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

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Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

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So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

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Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

Alan Cumming

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Alan Cumming

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

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I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

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For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.

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I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

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Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.

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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

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There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.

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It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

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I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

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I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure.

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I think you can be as big as you like as long as you mean it. I really do.

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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

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When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

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You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

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Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

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