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"I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that."
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"It's an acting job - acting natural."
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"Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene."
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"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."
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"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."
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"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."
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"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it."
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"Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning."
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"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."
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"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."
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"I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you."
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"I'm not interested in wasting money on a project."
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"I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging."
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"And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do."
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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 like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that."
Acting
"I was always attracted to the past as a kid."
Past
"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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"I would rather just do the things I want to do."
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"I write in the mornings. During my down time."
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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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