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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

"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."

"I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting."

"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."

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

"One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor."
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"Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore."

"There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors."

"But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different."

"All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form."

"You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you."
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