Occupation: Film Actor Birth: April 20, 1964
You're watching your kids playing football and you're not present. It's like the worst... it's horrible. I despise myself for it. I think it's a part….
But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or anim….
I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema….
I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and also All That Jazz….
Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine..
I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging acto….
I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act….
The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation..
I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes….
Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income..
You don't go - oh this is a motion capture role, I'm going to employ this method of acting. We don't have anything to hide behind when we're doing th….
Acting is acting, as far as I'm concerned and, you know, how you manifest it is, at the end of the day, not the point. It's how it affects the story ….
I mean, in many ways, you know, I felt very connected to Ian (Dury) on, on a lot of levels. I mean, politically, & sort of, socially, our, kind of, s….
I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that p….
Second films are, you know, like 'difficult second albums', so it's a tricky position to be in but I think he's made a highly accomplished film..
When you have children, you realize that at the end it's all about passing on, about handing down. The process of letting go, not attachment, but app….
I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture..
More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get storie….
My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we ….
What you can do with visual effects is enhance the look of the character, but the actual integrity of the emotional performance and the way the chara….
It's a different rhythm than most movies. For a lot of the actors, you're 12,000 miles away from home. It becomes a way of life - getting up at five ….