If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.
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I like the idea of stepping back into another time period.
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Somewhere in the '60s, actors became wimps and basket-case psychotics.
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It's a debilitating process, working with the studios. With the length of time it takes for drafts and development deals, your enthusiasm is gone before you're ready to make the film.
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I love Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, but not Charlie Chaplin.
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Andy was a character, and the two of us did have some things in common. We appreciated funny things, didn't like serious things.
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My films always play better outside of New York, especially to critics.
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I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.