be alive

“If I dance all night, don’t mind me. I’m happy to be alive.”

But Maryam Kamalmaz refuses to give up on the idea that her father may still be alive.

"Most of the people here at the centre shouldn't be alive. The fact that they are is a miracle in itself."

Roles like this are kind of a holy grail for an actor, where there’s a degree of difficulty, and you want to try to transform, and you want it also to be alive and not just mimetic and all those things.

I’ll probably be alive for far less time than Kissinger was, and I never bombed Cambodia, so can’t I just enjoy my stupid memes?