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"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
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"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
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"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."
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"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
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"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."
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"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."
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"Television speeded everything up."
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"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them."
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"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended."
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"I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years."
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"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
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"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."
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"With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system."
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"I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing."
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"The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor."
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"I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once."
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"When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control."
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"Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece."
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"The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is."
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"My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre."
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"I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue."
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