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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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"The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards."
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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."
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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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"I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'."
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"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."
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"Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing."
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"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."
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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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"Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!"
Movies
"If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone."
End
"Ummm... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not."
People
"To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light."
Music
"When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing."
Work
"I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist."
Baby
"Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels."
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