Joseph Fiennes Quotes

He Challenge Is Finding The Modern Conduit For The Audience, Having Fun And Really Looking At The Duality Of This Particular Character, That Is Both Devil And Angel, And On The Cusp Of Losing Control Of The Pagan Background, To This Newfangled Religion Called Christianity. There's A Great Backdrop There, And Just A Whole Dark Side With The Magic.

Merlin Is Really At The Forefront, In That Regard. We Get A Glimpse Into The Dark, Machiavellian Corridors Of Power. I Like The Fact That, Although He Has Powers, His Powers Are Almost In His Political Guile As Much As What He Relies On, In Darker Forces.

I Also Wanted To Have Fun With It. I Wanted To Have The Scope, Which I Felt Merlin Has, In His Machiavellian Bi-polar Way. He's Not To Be Trusted, Yet He Is Fighting For This Great Power And Is Really A Master, To Some Degree, In Orchestrating Camelot And King Arthur. He's A Strange, Dark Devious Character, And I Just Wanted To Have Fun, And Get Away From The Cloak And Long Beard And Pointy Hat.

I'm A Huge Admirer Of Pope Francis And Everything He Stands For. I Think He's An Incredibly Connected Spiritual And Authentic Being.

I Think Academics Are Infuriating. For Every Expert On Shakespeare There Is Another One To Cancel His Theory Out. It Drives You Up The Wall. I Think The Greatest Form Of Finding Out The Truth Is Through Fantasy.

I Fall In Love With Contradictions Without Understanding. I Can't Really Portray Them Unless I Do. So In A Roundabout Way I Have To Fall In Love, It's My Duty. If Love Is About Understanding And Understanding Is Compassion And Compassion Is Love, I Have To Have Compassion Towards The World.

I Love New Writing, New Blood, Modern Works By Unknown Writers.

I Can Only Put Myself In The Process And Try To Learn Through The Process. Sometimes It Will Go Well And Sometimes It Won't.

There Is A Bit Of Me If I'm Pushed In One Way I Might Bounce Back And Go The Opposite.

I Think Everything I Do Is My Early Work. I Can't Wait To Get On To The Later Stuff.

The Great Thing About Films Is That You Have Access To This Whole World Of Experts Who Teach You The Skills Your Character's Supposed To Have.

It All Felt Like A Terribly Long Time. It Would Have Meant That I Had To Make Five Movies In Five Years And If You Don't Like The Movies, Too Bad. I Guess I Just Wanted My Freedom, And I Think My Life Has Been Incredibly Enhanced As A Result.