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Joe Morton

"Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script."

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"Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with."

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"Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far."

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"I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents."

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"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."

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"There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done."

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"I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do."

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"I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture."

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"James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies."

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"When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play."

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