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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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Akshay Vasu

"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."

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Akshay Vasu

"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

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Akshay Vasu

"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."

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Akshay Vasu

"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."

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Akshay Vasu

"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."

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Akshay Vasu

"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

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Akshay Vasu

"The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover."

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Akshay Vasu

"One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor."

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Akshay Vasu

"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."

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Akshay Vasu

"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."

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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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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
"It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them."

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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
"There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took."

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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
"The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR."

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

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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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