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"I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer."
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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."
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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
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"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
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"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
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"As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along."
Actor
"But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time."
Time
"I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways."
Money
"In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios."
Money
"I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s."
Movies
"My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound."
Work
"Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact."
Character
"I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe."
First
"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
Envy
"Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises."
Problems
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