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"I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that."
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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."
"You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub."
"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."
"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."
"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."
"An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut."
"You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there."
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"Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult."
"People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried."
"I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned."
"Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises."
"You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you."
"We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information."
"Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film."
"Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them."
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