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Matthew Modine

"Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years."

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Amber Hurdle

"Directors, like actors, get typecast."

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Amber Hurdle

"To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

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Amber Hurdle

"Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Matthew Modine
"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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Matthew Modine
"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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Matthew Modine
"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."

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Matthew Modine
"Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative."

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Matthew Modine
"I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path."

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Matthew Modine
"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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Matthew Modine
"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."

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Matthew Modine
"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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Matthew Modine
"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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Matthew Modine
"I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money."

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