"Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects. " - Christopher Eccleston
"A year later, and I'm average again. " - Christopher Eccleston
"Culturally we've always felt it important to express the life of the country, and working class comes into that. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I came out of school in '79 when unemployment was really starting to bite, went back and redid my O-levels, there was a play going on and I was corralled into it. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I didn't work for three years. I couldn't get arrested! I'd given up, really, and was working for my brother on a building site and working on the crew at the Royal Exchange Theatre, building sets and changing the scenery. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I do pride myself-I think it's important in a creative environment-on being generous. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream! " - Christopher Eccleston
"I got to work with Ian Holm. David Cronenberg's very open and I think he just presumes that you're an intelligent person who's read the script and you know what he's on about. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I had bags of energy as a kid. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I know what I need as an actor and I trust my instincts about scripts, but I'd be seriously lacking technically, as a director. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I prefer British television in one sense because I still feel that the best-written scripts I get are for television. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I was also attracted by the idea of working with non-actors who were learning new skills. I thought it was an admirable impulse on the part of Pete Bowker to want to include people who are so often excluded. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I've been a first-timer. You've gotta give people a chance. " - Christopher Eccleston
"I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step. " - Christopher Eccleston
"In Elizabeth I did RP. I can do accents. I did an American film where I played a Brooklyn Jew, I played an American in Existenz. " - Christopher Eccleston
"It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents. " - Christopher Eccleston
"It must be heartbreaking for a filmmaker to actually start something like that. And then to have some terrible, terrible weather problems. " - Christopher Eccleston
"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral. " - Christopher Eccleston
"Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney. " - Christopher Eccleston
"Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can. " - Christopher Eccleston
"My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking! " - Christopher Eccleston
"Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming. " - Christopher Eccleston
"On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture. " - Christopher Eccleston
"Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre. " - Christopher Eccleston
"Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices. " - Christopher Eccleston
"The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are. " - Christopher Eccleston
"The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding. " - Christopher Eccleston
"The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry. " - Christopher Eccleston
"Theatre is as close to football as you can get, its a thrilling, physical experience. " - Christopher Eccleston
"Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre. " - Christopher Eccleston
"There are films I saw as a younger man, which I think always tend to form your taste. " - Christopher Eccleston
"They probably think I'm Australian. " - Christopher Eccleston
"Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot. " - Christopher Eccleston
"We all need a firm sense of identity. " - Christopher Eccleston
"We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. " - Christopher Eccleston
"What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye. " - Christopher Eccleston
"When I was growing up I always thought the arts and acting a bit mysterious and inaccessible. If there is any way of demystifying it, that's fine with me. " - Christopher Eccleston
