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"I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."
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"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."
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"The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story."
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"Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well."
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"I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting."
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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."
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"Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone."
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"There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?"
Music
"When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it."
Music
"I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does."
Actor
"The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities."
Life
"Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to."
Design
"We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality."
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"We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it."
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