Quotes by John Hurt

John Hurt

‘The Elephant Man’ was hugely enjoyable to do. I thought the one stage, when Chris Tucker did the first makeup and it took 12 hours, I thought they’d actually found a way for me not to enjoy filming.

Elephants

Makeup

Men

[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak. It is not literature, it is images on screen.

Cinema

Directors

Literature

[Bong Joon-ho’] is quite different but technically, he is as clever as [Alfred] Hitchcock. That’s saying something. In humanitarian terms, I think he is much cleverer. He is one of the best directors I’ve worked with. I absolutely adore working with him.

Clever

Directors

Thinking

A mathematician either has a feeling for equations and an understanding and delight in it, not only in the purity of it, but in its beauty as well. I don’t think that’s something that you learn at school. I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you’re talking about being a mathematician, I think that’s definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.

Feelings

School

Thinking

A very, very impressive director, Tomas Alfredson. It’s only his second film [ ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’], but he’s a real find.

Real

Soldier

Spy

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn’t it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it’s being able – I can’t tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

Acting

Imagination

Trying

Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it’s being able – I can’t tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

Acting

Imagination

Trying

Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realize that it is going to come to an end at some stage.

Light

Realizing

Tunnels

Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it’s pessimistic. Does that make sense?

Character

Doe

Optimistic

As Beckett said, it’s not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Enough

Forgotten

Said

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Accepting

Acting

Actors

Ambition

America

Animal

Answers

Arrogance

Arrogant

Asking

Attitude

Awful

Beautiful

Believe

Bluffs

Book

Boys

Broken

Business

Careers

Catholic

Certain

Change

Changed

Character

Children

Choices

Cinema

Clergy

Clever

Common

Concessions

Confusion

Couple

Cowboy

Crazy

Cutting

Darkness

Differences

Different

Directors

Discipline

Doe

Done

Drama

Driving

Each Day

Elephants

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Quotes by John Hurt

John Hurt

‘The Elephant Man’ was hugely enjoyable to do. I thought the one stage, when Chris Tucker did the first makeup and it took 12 hours, I thought they’d actually found a way for me not to enjoy filming.

[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak. It is not literature, it is images on screen.

[Bong Joon-ho’] is quite different but technically, he is as clever as [Alfred] Hitchcock. That’s saying something. In humanitarian terms, I think he is much cleverer. He is one of the best directors I’ve worked with. I absolutely adore working with him.

A very, very impressive director, Tomas Alfredson. It’s only his second film [ ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’], but he’s a real find.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn’t it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it’s being able – I can’t tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it’s being able – I can’t tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realize that it is going to come to an end at some stage.

Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it’s pessimistic. Does that make sense?

As Beckett said, it’s not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

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