I certainly relish the chance to play a woman who didn’t have to conform in any way ever to expected behavior or desirable behavior or attractive behavior. Rosamund Pike Read Quote
There was a time during ‘Gone Girl’ that I’d come home, and I’d say, ‘I get to be every part of being a woman in this role.’ For me, I feel it much more as a springboard for the work I’m going to take on thereafter. Rosamund Pike Read Quote
I have worked with three female first assistant directors – on ‘Hostiles,’ ‘Gone Girl,’ and a short film, ‘The Human Voice,’ and they have all been exceptional. Rosamund Pike Read Quote
You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as human beings is through art, and the way we process emotions – I know I do – is through recognizing experiences on screen or in novels or in paintings. Rosamund Pike Read Quote
I decided to finish at Oxford because I looked up at the top of the buildings – the gargoyles and spires – and decided to stay. Rosamund Pike Read Quote
It’s not easy casting the men. You have to go gingerly, but you have to approach the right man at the right time because men don’t want to play second fiddle to a woman. That’s the truth. Rosamund Pike Read Quote
There are lots and lots of good actors out there, and often it’s just luck if what you bring to the table syncs with the director’s vision. Rosamund Pike Read Quote
I grew up without any security – I obviously had lots of security because I have two parents who had a good marriage and stayed together, and we had a creative household full of ideas, but there was never any financial security. So I knew I could have a good life without that. Rosamund Pike Read Quote
I used to get nervous just going to the stage door, seeing people waiting to talk to me. I was afraid of being caught out in some way or not being right. Rosamund Pike Read Quote
And I like the look on people’s faces when I say I’m doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I’m in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to. Rosamund Pike Read Quote
