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"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

"We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed."

"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."
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"I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time."

"Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading."

"I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation."

"The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me."

"I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again."

"The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right."
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