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Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.

~Andrew Dominik

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I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.

~Andrew Dominik

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For me, the movie's always evolving as I'm doing it. I throw things in as we shoot, and I take things out as we go. I want to create a whole life and then select the pieces that best sort of describe it later, you know? So there's a lot of wastage when I make a film.

~Andrew Dominik

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Once you do something violent in a film, you don't have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I'm saying?

~Andrew Dominik

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Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.

~Andrew Dominik

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When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.

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I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something that could be a movie, but I don't put a book down just because I don't see a movie in it, either.

~Andrew Dominik

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I actually don't like westerns much. I like good westerns, but it isn't my preferred genre. There are all kinds of westerns: acid westerns, '70s westerns, Nicholas Ray's neurotic westerns. The ones I tend to like are nutso westerns.

~Andrew Dominik

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Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

~Andrew Dominik

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In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence.

~Andrew Dominik

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Biography

Nationality: New Zealander

Type: Director

Born: October 7th, 1967

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