My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...
John HurtI am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.
John HurtObviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.
John HurtIf you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.
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