"Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing."

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"Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing."

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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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"I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for."

Christopher Parker, English 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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"I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy."

Bea Arthur, American Actress

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"The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards."

Elia Kazan, American Director

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"Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real."

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"I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job."

Roddy McDowall, British Actor

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"An actor has to embody a role."

Taylor Hackford, American Director

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"It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors."

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"I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting."

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"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."

Interest

"I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience."

Society

"I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next."

Language

"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

"Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life."

Life

"I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer."

Identity

"To me, America is just another market."

Market

"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

"I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie."

Love

"I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on."

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