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Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

Kevin Spacey

Audiences

Trying

Years

I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.

I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

Kevin Spacey

Reason

Tension

I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

Kevin Spacey

Heart

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

Kevin Spacey

Music

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

Kevin Spacey

Movies

Years

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

Kevin Spacey

Work

Day

My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards.