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Joshua Leonard

"We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared."

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"We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared."

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"Stop focusing so much on what is on the outside and start getting to know yourself better on the inside. Your true purpose in life lies in your inner positive voices."

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"You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been."

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"Don't behave like your heart and mind are strangers to you; they are yours, don't depend on others to understand them, you got to understand them."

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"Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally - few speak about the greatest of all these YOU."

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"Never forget to be someone even when you get lost in the wildness of a crowd."

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"Appreciate yourself for who you're not for what you're."

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"To find your self, get lost is the search of knowledge and wisdom."

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"You do not need permission to be you. Just be your authentic, brilliant, one-soul-only self. You are a marvel. Act like it!"

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"The Self, when finite, is Human and when infinite, is God."

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"A true swarthi (interested in the Self) will become the absolute Self! This is considered paraartha (for the non-Self). A swarthi will attain the 'Self'."

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"The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research."
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"I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of."
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"We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments."
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"Actors are such an insecure breed."
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"I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak."
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"Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film."
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"I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience."
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"Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role."
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"Mike and Heather and I rapped once or twice in New York and then we all wound up on a train together on the way out to Maryland. I think it was about a month and a half from the time we got cast until the time we shot the thing."
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"Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche."
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