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    3D movie is tedious, its tedious for everybody, it's hard for the crew, it's hard for the actors. It adds more time. It's more technically complicated, so that just adds more time and takes a little more time away from he acting and that's kind of frustrating but to say "I'll never do 3D again" that doesn't make any sense.

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    A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.

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    And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

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    As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

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    As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

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    As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

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    But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

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    Early in my career, people wanted to pigeonhole me as the bad guy because I'm of Italian-American descent, which they often were when I started out. You have to fight against it. One of the things that helps is the ability to do comedy.

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    Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

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    Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

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    [Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style and the deadpan delivery of RESERVOIR DOGS or FARGO and so they imitate those movies. They want PULP FICTION, but they get it all wrong! They get the detachment, but that's it. And then it's all about style, and in the end what do you learn about the characters? Nothing. You learn you wasted two hours.

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    I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.

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    I don't like things about serial killers. There's so much serial killer information out there in documentaries constantly. A lot of it's just sort of gratuitous or it's almost like pornographic, really. There's no reason for it being shown.

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    I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.

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    I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

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    If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.

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    I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of coverage and excessive takes and don't keep things moving or constantly cutting.

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    I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.

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    I'm a control freak. Totally.

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    I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

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    I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

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    I'm interested in how people shoot because I have a very specific way of shooting and I'm fascinated by the way other people shoot films, particularly if they're smart and talented.

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    I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.

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    I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.

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    It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

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    I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He's really old now.

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    I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

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    I write in the mornings. During my down time.

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    Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

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    My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

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    People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

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    Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.

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    Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.

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    So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

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    The action stuff takes a long time but when you're there and you're doing it and you go into that take and you run and everything is blowing up around you and you're diving onto something it's actually incredibly thrilling and you feel like a kid again. Like a kid, who used to play and pretend all those things would happen and now they're actually happening.

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    The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

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    The most I've ever done was twenty-something, but that's wasn't because I wanted to. I feel like to me it's usually somewhere between two and- no, it's very hard to say because it really depends up on the shot, you know? If it's a complicated master shot and you know that this is the only thing that you're doing for that scene, a complicated one-er, you're going to maybe end up doing a few more takes than you normally would. But I'm not a big believer in doing tons and tons and tons of takes.

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    There is a joke that I use all the time. I say it to my kids. I used to say it to my wife. She'd be talking to me about something very serious and then I would just look at her and go "Where are you from originally?" And she would go "Humphhh! C'mon. That's terrible!

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    The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

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    Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.

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    Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.

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    What's great is when you're working with somebody with whom you have a connection, it's exciting because there's a shorthand and you trust each other and you have a good time together on the set and so you can go a little farther than you might normally because you're with somebody that you trust.