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"Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again."
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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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"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years."
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"Directors, like actors, get typecast."
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"To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle."
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"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."
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"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."
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"Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to."
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"Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really."
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"I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody."
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"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."
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"If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction."
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"You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you."
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"So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light."
Light

"Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative."
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"I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path."
Famous

"I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot."
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"They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people."
People

"My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition."
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"For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to."
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"I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money."
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