#i

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio. ↗

— John Hurt

#easily #i #listen #much #never

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe. ↗

— John Hurt

#describe #everything #ferment #going #happens

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit. ↗

— John Hurt

#almost #anderson #cowboys #fit #had

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films. ↗

— John Hurt

#big #every #films #finance #get

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind. ↗

— John Hurt

#cross #even #film #i #making

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong. ↗

— John Hurt

#change #drastically #interview #something #then

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer. ↗

— John Hurt

#because #been #difficult #i #kind

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies. ↗

— Owen Wilson

#francis #growing #growing up #i #like

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her. ↗

— John Hurt

#anyone #drank #drinks #father #fear

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure. ↗

— John Hurt

#ask #far #felt #insecure #made