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" I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies. "

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" I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy. "