It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do … - James McAvoy

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We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

James McAvoy

It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now. . . " It's also a bit sordid but it liberates an actor, I think.

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I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'

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Kids audience is a brilliant audience. If you've got an audience of adults standing up and clapping, or you've got an audience of kids standing up and clapping, I know which one I'd choose.

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