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"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."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."
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"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."
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"Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine."
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"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."
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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
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"I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!"
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"My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."
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"So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really."
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"It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning."
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"The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors."
Actor
"I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day."
Change
"I write in the mornings. During my down time."
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"I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging."
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"I never go overbudget on my movies."
Movies
"I'm not interested in wasting money on a project."
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"And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do."
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"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."
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