Zitat des Tages von Ralph Fiennes:
You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.
I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
I have no regrets.
The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.
We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.
The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.