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David R. Ellis

"Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that."

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"Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."

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Donna Grant

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

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Donna Grant

"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

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Donna Grant

"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

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Donna Grant

"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."

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Donna Grant

"An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening."

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Donna Grant

"Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four."

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Donna Grant

"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."

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Donna Grant

"I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say."

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David R. Ellis
"They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up."

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David R. Ellis
"You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in."

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David R. Ellis
"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."

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David R. Ellis
"Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you're in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day."

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David R. Ellis
"So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever."

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David R. Ellis
"We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects."

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David R. Ellis
"I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money."

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David R. Ellis
"They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase."

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David R. Ellis
"Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies."

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David R. Ellis
"I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew."

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