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"I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one."
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"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"Looper is another great film."
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"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."
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"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."
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"I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."
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"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."
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"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom."
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"We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together."
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"I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot."
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"Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me."
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"Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing."
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"It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part."
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"I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level."
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"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."
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"I just love getting dirty."
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"I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail."
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