"As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line."

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"As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line."

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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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"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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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

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"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared."

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"I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here."

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"It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something."

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"There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth."

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"Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor."

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"When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them."

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"We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors."

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"It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all."

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