I wasn’t absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn’t want to make a bloody fool of myself.
The logistics of blood is something that I didn’t even understood as a first-time director. Not just actors and make-up, but once a set gets bloody, you don’t un-blood it. Once something gets bloody, you either rebuild the set, or you just don’t get the shot.
I really loved making ‘Love, Nina.’ I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!
I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.
When I get a job, I make phone calls to every single person I know and tell them not to bloody call me.
As the world’s finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.
To some extent, ‘The Wall’ is asking the question, ‘Do you want a voice? And if you do, you better bloody well go out and get it because it’s not going to be handed to you on a plate.’
War is brutal, barbaric and bloody.
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn’t know the answer.
Scale is very easy actually. Put a camera on a jib or a drone and get bloody big shots on big sets, it’s very easy. But then you’re distracted. If you’re looking at the shot, you aren’t following the story any more.
But I don’t want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don’t like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven’t become a citizen.
I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.
You don’t send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‘shooting an unarmed child,’ when that ‘child’ was beating him bloody.
I certainly have no regret living in the U.S. The quality of life in Australia is good, but it is bloody good here as well.
They say military have the so-called ‘secret intelligence’ – this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I’ve never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.
Dancing as a thing to do is marvellous, but you’ve got to be bloody good at it. I was never good enough.
If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I’d done, I’d be a walking billboard.
I make a Bloody Mary at home with a dash of fish sauce, a little bit of coconut, and some lime juice. It gives the cocktail some South Asian flair.
The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.
A few days after Bloody Sunday, there was demonstration in more than 80 American cities. People were demanding that the government act.
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too.
I loved killing zombies in ‘Day of the Dead.’ I basically welcome anything that involves being dirty or bloody or shooting guns.
I do think that it’s better for a musical to live its life first because if you see it on the screen, would you like to go to the theater after that? Probably not. You’ve seen it. And that’s the mystery of a musical that hasn’t been filmed. You’re bloody meant to go there and buy your ticket.
I really loved making ‘Love, Nina.’ I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!
When I was first starting out, you’d have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my hands black and blue and bloody.
I feel powerful when I’m onstage talking to an audience. I like communicating; it feels like my calling in the world. Knowing what you’re meant to be doing with your life is pretty bloody powerful.
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.
The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it’s the bloody butchery of ‘Hamlet,’ the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from ‘The Great Gatsby.’
The only ‘special supplements’ I’m using is two hard and bloody trainings per day, five days a week.
I didn’t have to keep a bloody journal. It’s terribly boring keeping a journal anyway. I hate it. You spend more time writing down life instead of living it.
With ‘Broken Harbour,’ a third of the way through, I worked it out and had to go back and bloody rewrite.
I’ve always been bloody single minded, which is probably why I’ve been in the game so long.
My mom is always asking why can’t I make something nice? Because I’ll make paintings, say, and they’re just really bloody and angsty. So I wrote ‘Dark Parts’ because I wanted to write something nice for her.
Acting is bloody scary.
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves’ fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.
I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old – break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon.
Well, as a kid I did all the Bloody Mary games and using a mirror to scare yourself.
I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won’t be bloody like the Russian Revolution.
The most frustrating thing about injuries is that they take so bloody long to heal.
People think I’m a miserable sod but it’s only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
I do what I do for a job. This is fighting. This is a bloody sport. It’s not a nice sport.
‘Extraordinary’ is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
You have to hold your bloody own or you’re lost.
If I hadn’t been part of ‘3 Idiots,’ I would have felt bloody jealous.
I’ve never lived like a bloody rock star or anything.
I look at some young commentators who sit down with piles of notes, and of course, what are you going to do if you’ve spent hours preparing all this stuff? You’re going to bloody well read it out. Boring!
I know exactly what it’s like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it’s like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it’s like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.
I’ve been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn’t it?
