"To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me."

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"To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me."

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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."

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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."

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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."

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"It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this."

People

"Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on."

Choice

"I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid."

Life

"I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience."

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"Because of all the concurrent stories going in 24 and its fast pace, it can be complicated in terms of the story, so I thought sound could help with the storytelling."

Thought

"There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make."

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"There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start."

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"Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away."

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"I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while."

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"I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise."

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