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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."
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"The fact is, it's hard to release movies."
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"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch."
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"You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them."
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"They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up."
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"I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s."
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"Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me."
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"Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!"
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"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized."
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"The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films."
Personality
"And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor."
Character
"Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that."
Truth
"I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially."
Acting
"The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water."
Feelings
"When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor."
People
"All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle."
Work
"It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake."
Mistake
"The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted."
Truth
"But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor."
Actor
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