There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family. Brian Cox Read Quote
I’ve directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn’t make a habit of it because it’s too consuming. Brian Cox Read Quote
Charles Laughton, who’s a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is ‘The Night of the Hunter.’ It’s full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio. Brian Cox Read Quote
I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I’m used to it in a way. If you’re classically trained like I am, it’s a little bit like mother’s milk to me. I enjoy it. Brian Cox Read Quote
The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There’s a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they’re like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that. Brian Cox Read Quote
Feudal societies don’t create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don’t fall into ‘Everybody in their place and who’s who,’ and all that. But the theatre’s full of that. Brian Cox Read Quote
I think I must be the only British actor who’s played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych. Brian Cox Read Quote
The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It’s everyone in their place. Brian Cox Read Quote
