There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
ALAN ARKINI 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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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