"Actors are such an insecure breed."

Actor, Actors

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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."

Phyllis Battelle, American Journalist

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"As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot."

Sanjay Dutt, Indian Actor

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"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."

Leslie Caron, French Actress

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"The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story."

Rachel Griffiths, American Actress

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"Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well."

Mario Lopez, American Actor

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"I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting."

David Keith, American Actor

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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

Satyajit Ray, Indian Director

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Life

"We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared."

Self

"Mike and Heather and I rapped once or twice in New York and then we all wound up on a train together on the way out to Maryland. I think it was about a month and a half from the time we got cast until the time we shot the thing."

Time

"We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments."

Film

"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."

Movies

"I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck."

Film

"I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak."

Love

"I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though."

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"Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche."

Being

"Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role."

Joy