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"Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be."
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"Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance."

"What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?"

"Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?"

"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."

"A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts."

"I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials."

"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."

"It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance."

"Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance."

"The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance."
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"I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March."


"I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough."


"While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing."


"I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off."


"Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal."


"To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation."


"I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day."


"These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television."
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