"The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors."

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"The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors."

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"I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops."

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"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."

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"Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now."

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"I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops."

"As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary."

"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."

"I've been a very lucky actor."

"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."

"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."

"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."

"Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now."

"Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors."

"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."

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"The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses."

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"You gotta make the movie you want to make."

"As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting."

"I never go overbudget on my movies."

"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."

"I'm a control freak. Totally."

"I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging."