"And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor."

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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."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

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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."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

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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."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

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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."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

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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."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

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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."

Mike Figgis, English Director

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

Richard Donner, American Director

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"It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley."

Aaron Eckhart, American 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."

Jena Malone, American Actress

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"A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing."

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"I have no interest in writing, directing or producing."

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"The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do."

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"I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76."

Time

"One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax."

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"On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development."

Development

"Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing."

Life

"My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year."

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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."

"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

"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."

"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."

"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."

"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."

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

"It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley."

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

"A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing."

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"I have no interest in writing, directing or producing."

"The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do."

"The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money."

"But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth."

"Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film."

"I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76."

"One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax."

"On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development."

"Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing."

"My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year."