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"Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing."
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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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"And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor."
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"Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part."
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"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years."
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"Directors, like actors, get typecast."
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"What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me."
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"Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors."
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"To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle."
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"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."
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"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."
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"Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns."
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"Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing."
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"I'm a historian in my own mind."
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"Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room."
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"My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid."
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"To me, America is just another market."
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"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."
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"It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back."
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"The good ideas will survive."
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"A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here."
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