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"It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable."
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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
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"When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with."

"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."

"You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman."

"This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there."
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"I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way."

"I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there."

"It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary."

"There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that."

"Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine."

"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."

"At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space."

"The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it."
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