I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
ALAN ARKINMy favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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