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"I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it."
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"One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb."

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"If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it."

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"High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless."

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"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."

"With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system."

"I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing."

"The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor."

"When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control."

"Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece."

"The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is."

"Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors."
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