• I realized that no matter what I thought in the past about how I constructed a character, I needed to know that the outside shell looked OK. If you're going to be a pirate, wear an eye patch. The more you inform yourself and fuel the internal engine that drives the character, then you get to the point where you can be standing on a hillside saying no dialogue but completely communicating to every person that's watching that film all of those peaks of desperation, joy, sadness and acceptance without saying a single word.
  Russell Crowe Quotes
• Everything else is the question of ethical standards. Russian legislation allowed many things that in the West were already considered inappropriate. For example, our standards on insider information were completely different, our standards of false advertising were completely different, our standards of working with shareholders were completely different. I worked within the standards that existed in Russia.
  Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes
• Sometimes the darker stuff has greater potential for drama, it's always interesting to investigate things that you might come across in your own life. There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.
  Cillian Murphy Quotes