Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
ALAN ARKINTwo-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 don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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 want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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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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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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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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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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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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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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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