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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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"My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner."
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"I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game."
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"Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class."
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"Acting for me is not that quid pro quo."
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"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."
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"And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no."
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"I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked."
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"To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together."
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"At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again."
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"I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it."
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"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."
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"But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half."
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"Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it."
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"I'm not interested in wasting money on a project."
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"I was dissatisfied just being an actor."
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"I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging."
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"People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that."
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"And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do."
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"I make time to write."
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"The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors."
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