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"The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

"I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

"At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first."

"If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all."

""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it."


"Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody."


"Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience."


"The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting."


"I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route."
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