Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.
People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.
Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.
Films don't take as long as people think. 'Harry Potter,' people always used to say, 'Well, my God, do you ever get any time to yourself?' I think I did, in 'Harry Potter,' over a 12 year period I did five days. So it's not exactly exhausting.
There is always a better choice that you were unable to quite touch with a single stroke. Even in acting, there comes a point, like a painting, where you have to say, "That's it. I can't go any further with it. " And sometimes, you say, "I'm really pleased that that's where it's finished up. " Other times, you think, "I don't think I really quite got there, but I haven't got time to go any further. " Rather reluctantly, you have to say "That's it. "
Very, very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons. 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.
When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges.
Send Love in Some Form to those you Believe have Wronged you, & Notice How Much Better you Feel
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.