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" Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it. "

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" Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we're not used to doing, because it was all in the details of if you don't make one move seem natural, it can give away all of it. "

" I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure. "

" Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days. "

" I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. "

" I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.' "

" I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted. "

" I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires. "

" I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play. "

" Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors. "

" I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor. "

" I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. "

" To me, it doesn't really matter how big the part is as long as the part is important to the story. "

" It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good. "

" Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me. "

" I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor. "

" They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. "

" Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to watch whatever magic special was on as a kid, but then, it's not that I lost interest, but to be a magician, you really, it's really hard work. Learning lines is hard enough; learning sleight of hand, that's real practice. "

" I've never had a grand plan. I've only just tried to keep open to many different possibilities, have fun and work with people who are passionate about what they do. "

" The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is. "

" I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. "

" The thrill of performing - that's something that hasn't changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience - it's the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins' birthday party. "

" All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men. "

" It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting. "

" I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing. "

" In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene. "

" My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre. "

" When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control. "

" I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way. "

" I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years. "