Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there’s a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what’s wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they’re inseparable. David Thewlis Read Quote
I’ve always tended to write comedy, but I’d hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy. David Thewlis Read Quote
I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country – if anything, just the opposite. David Thewlis Read Quote
It was so boring, and ‘Dragonheart’ was so unchallenging – there was no research involved or any rehearsal. So I was in my hotel room every night with no English-language TV except ‘Beavis and Butt-head’ at 10 o’clock every night. David Thewlis Read Quote
I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course. David Thewlis Read Quote
The whole question of ‘What is truth?’ seemed to be the theme of Trump’s presidency. David Thewlis Read Quote
I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh. David Thewlis Read Quote
