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After 'Radio Flyer,' to this day, every family-oriented script or script with kid actors comes across my desk. That's just Hollywood: you get pigeonholed, and it's both a blessing and a curse, but you live with it.

~David M. Evans

Topics: Across Actor After Blessing Both Curse Day Desk Every Flyer Get Hollywood Just Kid Live Pigeonholed Radio Script You

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Food scenes in movies are traditionally nightmares to shoot - you just can't fake eating, and you usually have to repeat it a lot of times to get the angles you need. It's actually quite a lot to ask of actors, and there's really nowhere to hide.

~David Mackenzie

Topics: Actor Actually Angles Ask Eating Fake Food Get Hide Just Lot Movies Need Nightmares Nowhere Quite Quite A Lot Really Repeat Scenes Shoot Times You

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Somehow, the process of making movies conventionally can dampen creativity because you've got to wait in line to do everything the way it's supposed to be, particularly with actors who are just hanging out waiting for the call.

~David Mackenzie

Topics: Actor Because Call Creativity Everything Got Hanging Just Line Making Making Movies Movies Out Particularly Process Somehow Supposed Wait Waiting Way Who You

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My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

~David Mamet

Topics: About Actor Became Correct Director Good Habit People Say Tendency Terrible Tried Way What If

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When I started out I was a failed actor.

~David Mamet

Topics: Actor Failed Out Started

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You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

~David Mamet

Topics: Actor Choice Experience Know Life Life Experience My Own Own Response Say Should Time Use You Young Young Actors

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My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectful. Once we've sort of found the scene, I have to get out of there, because you don't want to split the actor's idea of who's in charge.

~David Milch

Topics: Actor Anyway Because Charge Director Essential Found Get Idea Once Out Process Respectful Scene Sort Split Very Want You

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When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

~David Morrissey

Topics: Actor Disappointment Hazard Rejection You

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As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.

~David Morrissey

Topics: Able Actor Always Both Concentrate Directing Director Finished Interest Jobs Myself No Interest Occasionally Once Only Screen Who Will Work Your

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The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set.

~David Morrissey

Topics: Actor Get Like Minute Sense Set Show Thing Walk You

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