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"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be."
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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
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"I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy."
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"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."
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"The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor."
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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."
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"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared."
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"A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing."
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"I'm a rapper trying to be an actor."
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"I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it."
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"It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera."
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"We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd."
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"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be."
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"While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed."
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"I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present."
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"I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying."
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"Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality."
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"Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution."
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"Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug."
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"We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us."
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"Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen."
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