Christopher Eccleston
English actor
Falling off the stage in the third preview of Macbeth at the RSC.
What has been your biggest disappointment?
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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
Values & belief
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How do you know when a piece of work is finished?
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?
Craft & work
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What is your greatest fear?
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How does a new work begin for you?
Craft & work
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On my film Dune, that experience could have finished me. It was so horrible. I identify so much with my films – and I knew I sold out – and meditation kept me from jumping off the cliff.
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My limited capacity to learn.
The internet. Such potential for good and for levelling up the world, but such a quagmire in reality.
My local Tesco stopping stocking Häagen-Dazs Peanut Butter Crunch.
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Etan Ilfeld, The Etan Ilfeld Podcast / Watkins Magazine, Watkins MIND BODY SPIRIT Magazine, 28 January 2025
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It just, um, starts feeling correcter and correcter until it's done.
Always have final cut
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Laura Muzzarelli, Maharishi University of Management commencement Q&A, TIME, 27 June 2016
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Be true to yourself. Find your own voice and be true to that voice. Never take a bad idea, but never turn down a good idea. And, of course, have final cut. And be true to the ideas.
I’ve had this fear…the fear of being restricted—in every way.
An idea comes. Scripts are organised ideas. When you read a script, it comes alive in your head. And that aliveness in the head is like seeing it and hearing it and knowing it. Or if an idea comes from outside, boom, you catch it in your brain and you see it and you hear it, and you know it. You sometimes fall in love with these things. All you do in cinema is translate those ideas. They talk to you, so you just stay true to the idea and translate it as good as you can.
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