Id never really considered film. If Id thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Ridley creates a very immersive world, so when you walk up to a Ridley Scott film set you're in Ridley Scott's imagination,… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I'd never really considered film. If I'd thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I can watch a film, even a film that I've been in, and think, 'I'm not sure, 100 percent, what I think… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I think that all the talented filmmakers sort of share, I think, a sense of allowing magic to happen; of creating a… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I still have to say that I did 'Dirty Pretty Things' 11 years ago. That was a very sudden shift in my… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it's important to have films out there, to have… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well,… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for a film actor, especially if you are in a lot of the film, is sustaining energy for the… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Certainly what constitutes a stage actor, what constitutes a film actor, I don't even know what that is. And both things are… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate,… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
I do like sci-fi. When I was a kid, I was always sort of locked into sci-fi stories. So, sci-fi has always had a… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
My favorite thing to cook is anything that comes out okay. I'm very fond of certain pastas and sauces that I can just about… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
The history of slavery and the complication of slavery is that it is an international concept. It is something that affected people who were… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
