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I must admit that Gattaca was not at all what I expected it to be. It's a sci-fi film with few or no special effects, totally driven by character and dialogue. I was particularly impressed with the intelligence and complexity of the writing.
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Yes. It's very uncommon for a young actor to be presented a part that has any complexity at all. And this part has so much going on and Andrew is such a good writer. You can obviously tell, I mean, it's so rare these days to see a movie that's so rich in metaphor. The film is actually quite literary, in the best sense. It's obviously a film, it's not a piece of literature, but it's very well written. And acting is an interpretive art. It's all about taking a piece of writing and articulating it to the audience. So the better the writing, the better I'm going to be. And the more challenging it's going to be.
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And the film turns out to be quite timely...
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Well that all happened only after I decided to do the movie. All the press about the sheep happened while we were making the movie, not before then.
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What do you think about the whole subject of genetic tinkering? Exciting? Dangerous?
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Well, there were people who thought that the work Nazi Germany was doing in 1939 was exciting. There are people who said that. You have to be careful, that's what this movie's about. I'm not here to tell anyone some political message that I think they should believe in. I'll tell you what I believe in: I don't think we've begun to understand the roles that everyone in our community plays. I mean, it'd be pretty miserable if we all looked the same. And take out the gene for schizophrenia and you kill half the world's greatest art, it just disappears. So I think what it takes to be a good human being has more to do with how we handle what we're given than how we manipulate the cards we get.
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