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James Lipton

"What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before."

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Akshay Vasu

"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."

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Akshay Vasu

"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."

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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."

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Akshay Vasu

"Looper is another great film."

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Akshay Vasu

"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."

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Akshay Vasu

"The director is the only person who knows what the film is about."

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Akshay Vasu

"In any film there's always a historical implication."

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Akshay Vasu

"For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave."

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Akshay Vasu

"He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film."

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James Lipton
"If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen."

Life

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James Lipton
"The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive."

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James Lipton
"They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors."

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James Lipton
"And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television."

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James Lipton
"I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates."

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James Lipton
"When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students."

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James Lipton
"What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before."

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James Lipton
"The foundation for film acting is stage acting."

Acting

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James Lipton
"Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk."

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James Lipton
"We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything."

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