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A Lot Of Actors Choose Parts By The Scripts, But I Don't Trust Reading The Scripts That Much. I Try To Get Some Friends Together And Read A Script Aloud. Sometimes I Read Scripts And Record Them And Play Them Back To See If There's A Movie. It's Very Evocative; It's Like A First Cut Because You Hear 'she Walked To The Door,' And You Visualize All These Things. 'she Opens The Door' . . . Because You Read The Stage Directions, Too.

It's Easy To Fool The Eye But It's Hard To Fool The Heart.

I Don't Regret Anything. I Feel Like I've Made What I Would Call Mistakes. I Picked The Wrong Movie, Or I Didn't Pursue A Character, But Everything You Do Is Part Of You And You Get Something From It.

I Never Saw Myself As A Director. It's Certainly A Second Language But Making Movies For 40 Years, You Pick Stuff Up. However, This Style Of Making Movies, This Documentary Style, Is Easier For Me Because I Gather A Lot Of Material And With An Editor, Write It On Screen. You Try To Write Based On What You Shot.

I Was Never Very Happy With Performing; It Didn't Turn Me On Much.