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"I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do."
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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."
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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."
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"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."
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"There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that."
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"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."
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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."
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"An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut."
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"You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there."
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"The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight."
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"Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation."
Time
"I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies."
Love
"I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing."
Time
"Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from."
Work
"I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people."
People
"I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do."
Actor
"I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished."
Being
"Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing."
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"There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that."
Work
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