Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
ALAN ARKINMy favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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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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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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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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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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