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"I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game."
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"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"
"I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue."
"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
"What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed."
"My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works."
"I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera."
"I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling."
"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."
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"I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area."
"My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God."
"I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it."
"I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening."
"And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime."
"I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying."
"But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box."
"Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on."
"I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions."
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