174 Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

We were in real places, with real people. That is Fernando's gift.

Fernando has a particular shooting style, ... which you might call guerrilla or documentary. He wants to avoid anything that smacks of a camera setup. It's as if the street informs the camera.

There's only one day to shoot one scene, you don't get a second chance. You've got to say, This is what I feel. Could I try this?

Any idealistic activity outside of my work is something confined to a few field trips with UNICEF in Uganda,

It's the sort of part, not unlike Hamlet, maybe, where the actor brings their cloth to it.

It shows the kind of man he is. To allow any emotion would be unseemly for him,

Daniel had to put up with a lot from me. Here's a boy who's tied up with a man pushing his finger into the wound on his head, laughing and delighting in the pain he's causing. He had to act as though he was in agony and terror without having many words to say. I was full of admiration for him.

It was latent in him. He doesn't change character, ... It's not in his nature to be confrontational or create any tension. Good gardeners have to have a very quiet tenacity and insistence about them. This constancy, this determination, is in Justin, but it's not high octane. I like that, that people don't get it all in the beginning.

They made his exterior very simple so you can see the evil inside,