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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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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Cut Direction Door Evocative First Hear Open Stage Thing Visualize Walk
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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Alive Come Director Great Pace Scene Stag Understand Way
Without coffee something’s missing
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Coffee Miss Something
When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Audience Back Come Extraordinary Thing Giving Perform You
Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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Country History Know Look Take Terrorist
I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Actor Disappointment Expect Great Opportunity Think Too
I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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Another Beyond Find Genuflect Higher Obe Pedestal Use Used Way Woman
My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Come Euthanasia Something Weakness Wish
We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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Live More Thing Work Workaday World
Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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Feel Film Opportunity Say Something Thing
When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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Another Audition Change Mean Opportunity Out Stuff Try Younger
I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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Bath Buddle Call Head Look Meal Park Solve Stuff Walk
Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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Aspire Dollar Dream Dull Emperor Fantast God Gold Grease Green Human Plate
I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Good Happen Like Live Negative People Speak Very Way Young
What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Between Person Theatre Thing
When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Great Happen Play Read Some Something Talk Writer

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