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There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.
What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.
When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.
Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know.
Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.
Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.
For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!
Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.
I don't do things lightly; I don't take a job then just phone it in - I've never done that.
I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.
I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.
I especially love my Moto Guzzi.
I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.
I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
I found my partner, my life partner, and I really am in love with my wife, and we have a lovely time, and we share a long history together and children together, and that's it.
I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.
I think it's quite tricky for actors to release albums. It's difficult, because I'm an actor, you know, I'm not a musician. I love singing, but I don't have a big repertoire of songs that I've written; I mean, I've got a few, but nothing that I could fill an album with, and I don't want to do it just for the sake of it.
I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.
I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.
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