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"It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well."
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"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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"Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone."
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"Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again."
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"One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor."
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"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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"A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills."
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"The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day."
Love
"You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me."
Movies
"When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white."
Want
"You think about taking audiences on a journey."
Entertainment
"I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different."
People
"I don't think good and evil are polarized."
Evil
"There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it."
Family
"Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other."
Work
"There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work."
Work
"I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies."
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