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I write in the mornings. During my down time. (work)
I'm not interested in wasting money on a project. (money)
I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday. (unknown)
I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost. (actors)
I've directed a film set in the '50s. (movies)
It's a terrific feeling to know that you can realize your vision, right or wrong, and that somebody trusts you to do it. (feeling)
It's good to have a co-director like Campbell Scott, who can say you're good there, or you're not good there. (direction)
It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning. (movies)
Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it. (cities and city life)
My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make. (movies)
Often you'll see in movies the Italian gangster is always dumber or meaner or bloodier than the others. (movies)
People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that. (people)
So I went to SUNY. at Purchase, studied acting at the conservatory. Did some plays, later TV. Nothing unusual. (games)
So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really. (movies)
Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject. (movies)
The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. (movies)
The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors. (direction)
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker. (unknown)
Then I go and act, and I watch directors and see what they do right, and what they do wrong, and that informs my next effort. (direction)
Well, my parents always spoke lovingly about their childhood, so maybe I was trying to live parts of my father's childhood. (parents and parentin)
When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out. (writers)
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