191 Quotes by John Hurt

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer.

Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.

I can't say that I wouldn't prefer to make small films, basically because I think they are probably more interesting in terms of the material. But every now and again, it's quite good to do a big one.

It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

I don't think you automatically become an enlightened person because you are a daddy. But they will change you, of course - their understanding of you puts you in a different place.

I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is halfway towards being a woman now. It's a crazy world.

He was a very experienced man, and for some inexplicable reason, he walked out in front of one of those rollers. We're stunned.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.