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"When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white."
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"Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other."

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"It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself."

"I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly."

"Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie."
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