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"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
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"But I really felt that, something about the lights going down, and the sense of community. I saw this movie at one festival, and there were 1700 people."
People
"We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people."
People
"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
Acting
"In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me."
Father
"Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption."
Baby
"Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time."
Dream
"It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else."
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"In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives."
Father
"I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed."
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"And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently."
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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
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"I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by."
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"I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it."
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"I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past."
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"Acting is very start and stop."
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"You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom."
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