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"The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise."
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"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."

"And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks."

"What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before."

"They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors."

"Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily."

"The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive."

"Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk."

"And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television."

"We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything."

"I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know."
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