"I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far."

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"I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far."

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"I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film."

Change

"She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings."

Feelings

"The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time."

Time

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Food

"I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice."

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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."

"The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work."

"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

"Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots."

"I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work."

"So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work."

"The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being."

"So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here."

"I've never been one who agonizes over my work."

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

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"I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film."

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"The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time."

"So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!'"

"Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it."

"I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice."

"I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt."