Helen Mirren Quotes

I Don't Share Lots Of The Phobias That Horror Movies Tap Into. I Don't Mind Spiders Or Snakes Or Darkness.

I Think It's Always Hard For People To Get Their Head Around The Fact That Populist, Commercial Films Can Also Actually Be Great Works Of Art.

The Whole 'r' Rating Depends On A Strange Sort Of Fantasy Land Where All Adults Are Responsible People, And Children Only Ever Go To The Cinema With Their Parents.

I Love Photography, And I Love The Art Of Photography.

A War Film Can Be Propaganda And They're Very Valuable As Propaganda, As We Realized In Britain In The Second World War. Film As Propaganda Is A Very Valuable Tool. It Can Also Demonize, Which Is The Dangerous Side Of A War Film As Propaganda. But There Are War Films That Are Not Propaganda. It's Just Saying 'this Is What It's Like.' For 99 Percent Of Us We Don't Know What It's Like. We Have No Idea. So To Reveal That To The Audience Is Powerful.

I Think We All Have A Dream Of What It Would Be Like Not To Work And Grow Heirloom Tomatoes, And I Do Have That Dream, It Would Be Lovely. I Do Love Gardening And All Of That, But I Do Love My Work.

I'd Describe Myself As A Christian Who Doesn't Believe In God.

At The Time Of The Silver Jubilee, I Was A Grumpy Anti-monarchist. I Didn't Celebrate And Was Appalled By The Celebrations. In My Idiocy, I Missed Out! I Feel Completely Differently Now Compared With That Time.

I Love Photography And I Love The Art Of Photography. So When I'm Working With High-level Art Photographers, I Give Them Artistic Freedom Because I Want That For Myself When It's My Turn To Do My Work And I Never Try And Control It Or Say I'll Only Do This Or I Want It Like That.

Like Journalists. The Police Have An Extremely Sick Sense Of Humor, Very Guarded, Very Private, Very Male, Which They Need To Survive On An Everyday Level. I Don't Think Anyone Has Ever Managed To Tap That On The Screen - It Would Actually Be Too Shocking.

Working Away From My Husband For Long Periods Is Good And Bad. It Stops Us Taking Each Other For Granted And Gives Us Space, But I Miss Him Terribly.

Wherever I Am In The World, If I Get Free Time When I'm Filming I Always Hire A Car, Take To The Road, Drive For Miles And Explore.