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You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don’t want four takes that are identical.

Dolph Lundgren

Your body’s made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.
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Alive Animal Distance Forest Function Run Walk Yourself
You really have to work hard to create a three-dimensional character. You have to rehearse and explore and take your time. You can’t just memorize your lines and do it on the fly.
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Creation Exploration Fly Memories Work Yourself
It takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character.
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Born Character Development Time
You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don’t want four takes that are identical.
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Alternative Color Director Identity Yourself
I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.
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Discover Feeling Goodness Martial Myself Need Quite Safety
Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.
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Body Famous Guard Myself Thinking
I try to keep the martial arts up. It’s a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.
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Art Goodness Martial Mindset Myself Physical
In the normal life of an actor or director, running around, there’s not much time to go to church. But there’s other ways to be spiritual, too.
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Director Life Normal Ordinary Religious Spiritual
Jebediah Woodley is one of those guys that when I’m sitting in my rocking chair one day, thinking back, I’ll remember that guy. He was a fun guy to play.
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Himself Play Remember Rock Thinking Weapon
Everybody’s life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.
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Greatness Level Life Love Mythic Obstacle Quality Struggle Yourself
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he’s done some good action movies too.
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It was fun to talk too much as Jebediah Woodley, to keep running your mouth whether the other characters want to hear it or not. That’s part of what made this guy fun.
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Fun Man Mouth Run Talk Yourself
When you are acting in a film, you have no idea what scene the editor is going to choose. For instance, after you have directed, you feel more comfortable delivering a performance. Because you know the real performance is put together in the editing room.
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Act Comfortable Deliver Edition Feeling Ideas Movie Performance Room Yourself
I think the energy I give off is quite non-confrontational. That’s something you learn from karate. Once you try to be a tough guy, you’ve got to pay up. You’ve got to prove yourself. And that’s exhausting.
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Aura Energy Exhausting Learning Pay Radiation Thinking Tough Yourself
Unless you’re playing a real character based on a real person, if someone else has done it before, you’re probably better off not watching it as an actor. Otherwise you end up trying to copy someone else.
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You get a bigger paycheck if you are the hero. There is something good about it.
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Big Goodness Hero Money Yourself

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