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"In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!"
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"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."
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"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV."
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"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
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"I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans."
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"You are not an active creator of the film."
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"What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year."
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"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."
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"I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door."
Hate
"There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true."
Work
"I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25."
Actor
"Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts."
Men
"I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change."
Change
"It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers."
People
"You learn more doing than doing training."
Training
"Not being able to work would make me very unhappy."
Work
"I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light."
Light
"I've only used my own voice about four times on film."
Film
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