The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore not knowing quite how to put that on screen.
John HurtActing 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.
John HurtI do what interests me when I'm invited and do it as well as I know how and try to get better. That's all.
John HurtSociety is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
John HurtPeople say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.
John HurtA 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.
John Hurt