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"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."
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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."
Driving
"People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip."
People
"When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work."
Work
"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."
Personal
"That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you."
Trust
"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company."
Career
"Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film."
Trust
"Some actors just won't bend, and then it's a bitch. You either fight or find ways of putting your words in their mouth and letting them say it back at you."
Actor
"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."
Time
"If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb."
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"I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor."
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"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."
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"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."
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"Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique."
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"A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills."
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"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."
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"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be."
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"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."
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