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The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren’t traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.
Very often when you see families it’s all perfect and neat, and parenting isn’t like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I’m not working I’m cool with the Teletubbies.
Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can’t sustain a career in just English movies.
A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you’ve got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don’t have that hunger.
I go off and make movies I come home, and I’m a dad and I hang with my girls.
You go back to those films of the ’40s and ’50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other – the wordplay. I think we’ve really lost that in movies.
The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there’s no question.
Obviously, I’m attracted to heavier movies.
I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.