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

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

"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."

"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."
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"24 isn't like other shows, where you set the look once and you're done. The show started at midnight, then moved to a pre-dawn look, and now we're at dawn and we're warming up the day."

"I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face."

"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."

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

"Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys."

"It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another."

"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."
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