Paul Gross Quotes
Here are some of the best Paul Gross quotes.
‘It’s really fun playing the Devil. There’s no real boundaries. There’s no limitations to what I can or can’t do. And I’ve been encouraging them to let me do things on the periphery, like set people on fire for no particular good reason.’
‘Trust me, there’s no more back-handed compliment than saying you like something because it’s Canadian. Girls say it to me all the time.’
‘The most rewarding thing is directing actors. That is really a treat. Part of the reason is if you have really good actors, as I did, it’s just a joy to watch them go at a scene. To be reminded of what a wonderful thing it is that actors can do…to inhabit these people. You’ve really only written these black and white symbols we call words and they suddenly are full bodied and they have hearts and it’s fantastic.’
‘I was interested in the intimate casualties of war, and what it does to families and innocence and neighbours, and love, I suppose. The casualties of love. And the only thing that can counterbalance something as implacably brutal as a cataclysm like the first war is all these individual acts of love and self-sacrifice.’
‘I certainly don’t want to be like Bryan Adams and have to play in gigantic stadiums. I think that would be daunting. I think playing in nice clubs is fun.’
‘It’s intriguing to me why the First World War started. It’s intriguing that the war continued even after both sides recognized it was hopeless. And it’s also intriguing that it ended so ambivalently, leaving the door open for the second one.’
‘The first time that you direct something you think you need to concentrate on everything and while to a certain extent that’s true, there’s a hierarchy of what’s important and what isn’t. I had it all flattened out into all of it being of critical importance. So I think I’d be better at it if I did it again’
‘Somewhere after long division, I stopped doing math. That cut off the sciences. I decided I probably should try acting.’
‘It has always struck me as being peculiar that we do so little with our military history, in particular with that war, although it would have been ferociously difficult to shoot before now – beyond our means and capacity to photograph.’
‘I met the Queen. It was the nicest thing. I can’t believe it.’
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