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"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."
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"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."
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"I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon."
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"We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20."
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"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."
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"I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic."
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"You are not an active creator of the film."
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"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."
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"It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film."
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"I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me."
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"I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise."
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"I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act."
God
"I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman."
God
"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."
Acting
"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it."
Eye
"When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part."
Character
"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture."
Culture
"The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."
Actor
"I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book."
Actor
"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."
Film
"Lead the audience by the nose to the thought."
Thought
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