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Steve Buscemi

"I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors."

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Donna Grant

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Donna Grant

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Donna Grant

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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Donna Grant

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

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Donna Grant

"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."

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Donna Grant

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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Donna Grant

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A."

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Steve Buscemi
"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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Steve Buscemi
"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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Steve Buscemi
"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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Steve Buscemi
"The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor."

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Steve Buscemi
"I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once."

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Steve Buscemi
"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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Steve Buscemi
"Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece."

Life

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Steve Buscemi
"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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Steve Buscemi
"I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue."

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Steve Buscemi
"Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors."

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