I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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