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"My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor."
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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."
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"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."
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"But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor."
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"You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor."
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"As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot."
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"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."
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"Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do."
Freedom
"I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home."
Home
"To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence."
Movies
"It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere."
Blood
"I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema."
Art
"To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper."
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"I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue."
Time
"I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie."
Character
"I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty."
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"I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next."
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