[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what’s best in it and make it work. That’s what it was like.
BRENT SPINERI’ve actually only seen it once, and it was in Hawaii, in a little theater in Oahu shortly after it was released. But Roland Emmerich is a really smart guy, and he makes really fun movies to watch.
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Earl Mills is probably the best role I’ve ever been given in a film. And it was a great experience to work with Halle [Berry] and Klaus Maria Brandauer, an Austrian actor who’s a hero of mine.
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I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
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There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.
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The only problem with that – and she was lovely – was that she was basically hired because [Gian Luigi Polidoro] thought she was [film producer] Ray Stark’s daughter. And he figured that if he ran out of money, her father would kick in some more.
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People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it’s really just the opposite
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I don’t know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.
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It’s fun to do something different. And there are things you can do in a small palate that you can’t necessarily do in a larger role.
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[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I’ve been friends with for many years.
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It was a fabulous experience shooting [in the Aviator], working with Leo [DiCaprio] and Danny Huston in the scene. It was great. I think what was most eye-opening about it was that [Martin] Scorsese was just like any good director you work with.
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I actually had some funny dialogue [ in Stardust Memories], a little piece, and we shot all day in this big ballroom.
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I assumed, “Well, I must’ve sounded like Conan O’Brien, or a reasonable facsimile or something.” And there I am in the movie [South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ]. I was very lucky.
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One of the things about working on Star Trek that was always so great was that we all got along as well as we did. We really became family.
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I got Greg Aronowitz, who does [ Felicia Day] sets, to do mine as well, and he’s just amazing. He can work miracles with nothing.
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I’ve gotten some feedback on it from people who’ve seen it and really enjoyed it, but I don’t know.
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Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.
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