I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn’t think that, there would be something wrong with me. I’m grateful and thankful for what I’ve got.
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Film’s hard when you don’t have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
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I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.
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There are characters in movies who I call ‘film characters.’ They don’t exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters what happens to them is not lifelike.
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People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I’m as sane as anyone who’s done what I’ve done in movies can be.
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You have to understand that crew members make movies so they’re seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
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I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.
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