I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
ALAN ARKINI had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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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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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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