Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.
I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.
Right after I left drama school, I had a job.
Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.
I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.
The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.
Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.
I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
Being No. 1 on any call sheet is difficult. Being No. 1 on an episodic, hour-long drama is really hard.
I agree that some of my performances in America, apart from having drama and excitement, have been a little under my estimation for performance.
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
There are no trans roles, and if there are, they go to Jared Leto or Eddie Redmayne or Elle Fanning... Will there ever come a point where I could play a woman in a realistic, naturalistic drama and have there not be the word 'trans' in the script?
Comedy is one of my favorites, but I also want to get into drama and sci-fi.
From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
I was impressed that when it came to making 'Rebellion,' they sought out Aku Louhimies, a Finnish director who's part of that new wave of Scandinavian realist drama.
If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.
