"I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty."

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"I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty."

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"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."

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"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."

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"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."

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"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

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"In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it."

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"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."

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"I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read."

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"I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it."

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"It must have been so impossible to think about it and dare to do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don't think the movie would work otherwise."

Work

"I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens."

Living

"The script was very explicit about the nudity that was supposed to be in the movie. Actually, they don't show everything we shot. They would cut here and it was floored. It was very embarrassing."

Nudity

"Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for "Lord of the Rings" out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good."

Experience

"Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don't know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It's such a hard job to have. I don't have any regrets about it."

Talent

"I made a French film called "Merry Christmas" which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece."

War

"What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age."

Age

"I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles."

People

"I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington."

Work

"I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do."

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