Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya. Ralph Fiennes More Quotes by Ralph Fiennes More Quotes From Ralph Fiennes I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. How do I know, but I think I'm quite good at saying, "That's no good. That's no good. That's it. That's it. That's good." And I'm with the editor who goes, "No, I think you're wrong. That's not your best." There's an initial point in the editing, if you're directing yourself, especially in my case, where you go, "Ouch, ouch, ouch, I can't watch this." And then, there's a point where you become hard-nosed and just take your neurosis away and go, "What's working? That's okay. That's okay. We can lose that, and lose that." You get objective about it. Ralph Fiennes ouch editors editing I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued. Ralph Fiennes mother father children If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater. Ralph Fiennes theater film gun I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it. Ralph Fiennes knows trying needs Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most Ralph Fiennes fighting keys people There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming. Ralph Fiennes journalist tabloids people I have grown up loving Shakespeare. Ralph Fiennes Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures. Ralph Fiennes girl education children There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!' Ralph Fiennes return want attention I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both. Ralph Fiennes heart character school I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of. Ralph Fiennes We're in a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter... [Language] is being eroded -- it's changing. Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us. Ralph Fiennes ease two world I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut. Ralph Fiennes guts plans careers We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other. Ralph Fiennes killing-each-other believe people I feel there's so much still to learn about acting. But there is some magic in the capturing of performance and in the process of editing a performance. The psychology of human beings and what's coming through the face... that fascinates me. Ralph Fiennes psychology magic editing Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say performances are usually made in the editing room because what you film is the raw material. I think just going through the process of saying, "Which take do we use? Why is that the take we want? I want that take can you edit again, I'm not sure that's the one, I think it's this one." And just because you go through that process, I think somehow it's made me sort of more open about the [actor's] possibilities. Ralph Fiennes editing ideas thinking News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising - not just at an executive level, but on the floor, in the warehouse. A man is packing a box of oral rehydration tablets; maternity kits are being prepared; education kits are being packed. And somewhere, tomorrow, those boxes will be unpacked and a child with life-threatening diarrhoea will be saved, a baby will be born in more hygienic circumstances, a girl will receive her first exercise book and her first pencil. Ralph Fiennes girl baby sympathy There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well. Ralph Fiennes impulse humanitarian wells The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship. Ralph Fiennes audience film belief In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible. Ralph Fiennes theatre simple needs
