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"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."
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"I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for."
"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."
"The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards."
"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
"I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early."
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"You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left."
"I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed."
"If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance."
"If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that."
"The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone."
"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."
"A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature."
"I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do."
"The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable."
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