People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much. Paddy Considine More Quotes by Paddy Considine More Quotes From Paddy Considine My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times. Paddy Considine fascinationhuman-naturecinema There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.' Paddy Considine camerasactorsstars A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him. Paddy Considine directorhimneverme The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably. Paddy Considine realizei-ammeman I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me. Paddy Considine darkestmecircumstancesbelieve I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works. Paddy Considine jobthinkyouopportunity I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films. Paddy Considine myselfmevoicetime I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it. Paddy Considine myselfyoumoneyworld Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process. Paddy Considine problemsgoodmeexperience I suppose I just had this Christian idea about how I ought to go about my life. I thought, 'If I work really hard and have a bit of success, the problems I'd had all my life would leave me.' But, of course, not a bit of it left me because Asperger's is not something you just get over or grow out of. Paddy Considine meworksuccesslife It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else. Paddy Considine myselfyoupeopleworld
