If you have a good script, that’s what gets you involved. It’s harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
BILL MURRAYSo I went, and one of the funniest film moments I’ve ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up – motley isn’t the word for that group.
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You don’t have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don’t need a giant crew. It’s great.
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You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.
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People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
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Back then, when a movie came out and people saw you on the street, their reaction was so supercharged that it was scary. It would frighten other people. It used to really rattle me.
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Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like, ‘Yep, I like this one,’ and you just do stuff with them.
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He’s going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It’s just total horror, and the camera’s still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, “Anything else, Bud?”
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I think all phases of one’s career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
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The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who’s actually doing the distribution in France.
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The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that’s very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.
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I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that’s it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I’d done something.
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I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you’ve got to study, and that wasn’t going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn’t going to work.
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I’m not an ungenerous person; I don’t resent it. It’s just sort of a head-scratcher.
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It’s much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.
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This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
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You know…they say an elephant never forgets. What they don’t tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
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