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"To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me."
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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."
Light
"I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience."
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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."
Nothing
"Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people."
People
"There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start."
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"I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid."
Life
"Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys."
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"When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?"
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"To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me."
Actor
"There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb."
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"I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor."
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"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."
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"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."
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"A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills."
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"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."
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"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be."
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"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."
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"I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different."
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