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Ray Walston

"I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor."

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"I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor."

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"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

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"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon."

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"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."

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"It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies."

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"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."

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Amber Hurdle

"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."

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"Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere."

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"You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting."

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"Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies."

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"I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies."

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