98 Quotes by Joseph Fiennes

When I was offered the part in ShakespeareIn Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!

Yes, in a way. Film is a by-product of my love of theatre. Theatre is for me the greater challenge. In many ways it requires more skill.

Miramax and Disney were collaborators, and then during the film's release, they jumped out of bed and it got caught up in a political holding pattern.

I'd like to be a passion fruit. Not because it's passionate, but because someone I know is mad about them and has got me onto them.

Yeah, I guess that's fair, ... And in a weird way my childhood was a great precursor to where I am now. Every year I had to learn how to interact in a new schoolyard, reinventing myself if one character didn't work. In hindsight I can see that it was great actor's training. But it was just the art of survival, really. Trying not to get beaten up in the playground.

There are a few remarkable directors who have a great creative streak and then simply go on streaking ... Today we have another remarkable director in our midst.

So there was a sense that we were always quite interchangeable.

So getting that balance between what is honoring scripture and the Word and also acknowledging the fact that by the virtue of putting it on film there's going to be a variation and adaptation, I mean, it's a fine dance and a balance. Our producers and directors have worked so hard to get that right and I'm really proud. I think it's a pretty good job.

Youth is a predominant factor. We are seeing a young King Arthur, and thereby a young-ish - as I'm into my 40s - Merlin. It was about how to tackle it, from that point view.