"I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show."

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"I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show."

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"I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever."

Hollywood

"I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety."

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"I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that."

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"The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable."

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"A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect."

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"Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things."

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"It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree."

Time

"I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs."

Work

"First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct."

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"It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right."

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