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 It`s kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world! Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.
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He`s very alive in a scene. He`s a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he`s blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.
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Well you`re talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.
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He said he wanted me to play a part, and he`s done that a couple of times before but I haven`t been available because I was making my own pictures.
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There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it`s more of the independent films that are recognized.
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It`s the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he`s fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.
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There are a lot of memories that are very... nutritious. I`ve had a very fortunate career. I`ve worked with practically every icon you can think of.
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He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn`t keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.
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It`s sad - it`s sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it`s hard to argue with those kinds of grosses.
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There`s evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
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It`s very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it`s oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.
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I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.
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No one turns down a film with Woody; it`s something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He`s such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.
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It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.
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Well you know, Woody doesn`t rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different.
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You don`t improvise. Well, you might improvise in a moment, trying to find something but for the most part everything is written by Woody, every word.
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It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It`s funny, it`s charming, the idea is original, it`s unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.
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I don`t know a lot of agents like Al Hack.
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Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o`clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It`s awful.
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