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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Alan Arkin

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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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