65 Quotes by Christopher Eccleston

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

It must be heartbreaking for a filmmaker to actually start something like that. And then to have some terrible, terrible weather problems.

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.