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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."
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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
"The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor."
"I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it."
"It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera."
"I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor."
"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."
"That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth."
"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
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"I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries."
"It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important."
"First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it's been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you're going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it."
"It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking."
"It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?"
"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."
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