I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
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You can road-test relationships.
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I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.
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I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'
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So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it.
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I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.
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If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!
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I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'
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The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film.