"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."

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"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."

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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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"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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"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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