Not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity.
ADRIEN BRODYI was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.
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Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it’s unfortunate.
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How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear.
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Like, fear and the way fear controls us.
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It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that.
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there’s always a process of getting to know one another.
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They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things.
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And that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.
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So there’s more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.
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So perhaps we always are acting, in a sense. But you meet someone you feel you admire or you “know,” and it’ll be different for that reason.
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War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography,
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Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.
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There are the obstacles of your position as an actor.
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Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change.
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The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.
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It’s great when people appreciate your work, but I don’t know how seriously to take it.
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And then, it’s out of your control.
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If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.
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The problem is when you become so well known that everyone is watching you and you don’t have an opportunity to observe.
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I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it’s pretty short-lived.
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My parents have raised me with a sense of what’s really important and have given me decent values, and I’m comfortable, but I haven’t lived an excessive lifestyle in the least. And I’ve kept my expenses to a minimum so that I have the freedom to wait.
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I take a lot less for granted.
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I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.
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Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
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What guides me is to do work that’s more avant-garde – things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.
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I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that’s kept me in line. Really in line.
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I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.
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