"In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system."

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"In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system."

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"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."

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"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."

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"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."

James Shirley, English Dramatist

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"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."

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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

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"And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing."

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"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."

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"Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations."

Saying

"You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling."

Distrust

"I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym."

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"Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real."

Feelings

"One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor."

Family

"I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there."

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"As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away."

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"I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face."

People

"You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about."

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"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."

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