"In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies."

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"In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies."

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"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."

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"I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy."

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"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."

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"In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material."

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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

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"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared."

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"My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done."

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"Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up."

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