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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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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well."
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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."
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"Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone."
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"Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again."
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"One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor."
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"Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess."
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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."
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"I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s."
Movies
"It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality."
Hope
"And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture."
Money
"I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer."
Act
"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
Envy
"If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York."
Movies
"But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time."
Time
"My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound."
Work
"I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word."
Right
"I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe."
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