"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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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."

Cillian Murphy, Irish Actor

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"You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub."

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"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."

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"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."

Emily Watson, English Actress

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"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."

Mike Figgis, English Director

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"I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this."

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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since."

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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 didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?"

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"A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here."

Truth

"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."

Love

"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'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

"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

"My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy."

Management

"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."

Faith

"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

"I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty."

Work

"I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie."

History