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John Sayles

"Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old."

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"Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old."

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John Sayles
"I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente."

Thought

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John Sayles
"I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department."

Art

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John Sayles
"The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough."

Character

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John Sayles
"There are genres I don't care for, and I've never worked in those genres, and then sometimes there are people that I haven't liked and I haven't worked for those people. But if I feel like there's a movie that I would like to go see, I'll jump into it."

People

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John Sayles
"I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me."

Movies

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John Sayles
"Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old."

Acting

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John Sayles
"To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'"

Work

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John Sayles
"I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'"

Movies

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John Sayles
"You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing."

Creativity

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John Sayles
"I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money."

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Aberjhani

"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."

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Aberjhani

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

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Aberjhani

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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Aberjhani

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

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Aberjhani

"I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by."

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Personal Development

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Aberjhani

"I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past."

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Personal Development

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Aberjhani

"Acting is very start and stop."

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Aberjhani

"You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom."

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Aberjhani

"Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take."

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Aberjhani

"Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious."

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