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"Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better."
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"Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show."

"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."

"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."

"I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient."

"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."

"Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better."

"More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down."
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"People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried."

"I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned."

"Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises."

"You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you."

"Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film."

"When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy."
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