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" I don't like to know exactly what I'm going to do in a scene, because the most interesting moments as an audience member are moments of truthful spontaneity. "
Timothee Chalamet
Interesting
Know
Moments
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" On American sets, you work 12-, 14-, 16-hour days sometimes. All that volume over a short course of time can actually be less conducive to telling a story accurately. "
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" The villain in 'Call Me by Your Name' is the tragedy of love - what seems to be part of the deal you sign with someone when you experience an amazing time with them. "
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" Somebody said to me, 'You should keep a journal of this period in your life and really write down this stuff.' But that makes me a little uneasy. "
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" I feel like I've been around performance my whole life. My mom and uncle had done plays. "
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Mom
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" I've always felt like there was less creative space on sets with guardians. I just felt independent at a young age. "
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Creative
Always
" First and foremost, 'Call Me by Your Name' is a story about love, and first loves, and unrequited, and then, later, requited love. "
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Story
" I love the East Village. "
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" Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal. "
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Per
Cent
" I'm sure no one really wants to think of themselves as a child actor. "
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Child
Really
Sure
" My favorite kind of acting scenes, or at least where I think people shine the brightest, are odes to Meisner technique scenes where people are face-to-face, and it's almost like a repetition exercise. "
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People
Think
" Sometimes if I'm in my head before a take, I'll just like to reach out to the closest thing to me - the wall or a sharp edge - and just push into it. That way, my physical experience is totally contemporaneous and not in the clouds. "
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Me
Way
" I wouldn't be the actor I am without New York. "
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New York
Without
Actor
" There's the truth to every moment that you have to bring to every scene, but you have to understand the tonality of the film before you begin, which isn't something that's instinctual to me. "
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Truth
You
Understand
" I went to LaGuardia, so I'm very close to the reality that lot of actors work rarely. "
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Reality
Close
Lot
" Sometimes, when you act with someone in an intimate capacity, you have to ask vulnerable questions to speed up intimacy - but that's artificial. "
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Sometimes
Up
Speed
" I played the piano growing up and then stopped for 10 or 12 years. "
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Piano
Up
Years
" I spent a lot of time in a small town in France, growing up. "
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Time
Up
Growing
" These are such First World problems, but there's a certain claustrophobia to New York. You don't escape in the East Village, but it at least feels full of camaraderie and youth - or full of camaraderie and youth in an East Village that is as full of Chase banks and Starbucks as the Upper West Side, or anywhere else in Manhattan. "
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Youth
You
World
" I miss the sense of belonging on a film as much as I did on 'Call Me By Your Name.' "
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Your
Belonging
Film
" I want to attack and to lead my life with vigor, but I'm in the watching stage at the moment. Younger actors feel pressure to bring a pop to every scene; as the roles get bigger, I'm finding you can add layers and do less scene-to-scene. "
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Moment
My Life
Pressure
" I've been getting to work with Steve Carell and just feel like the luckiest kid in the world. "
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Kid
World
" I did 'Prodigal Son' at Manhattan Theatre Club. "
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Club
Manhattan
" I've been very encouraged by the nature of the conversations that I've had and by the lack of questions that are tunnel-visioned in their understanding of sexuality and life and love. "
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Life
Understanding
" My dad's French, and I spent my summers in France growing up. So I speak French fluently, and obviously, I speak English because I was raised in New York, and I grew up here. "
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New York
Speak
Growing
" I do find that there's a fine balance between preparation and seeing what happens naturally. "
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Find
Seeing
Preparation
" There is an audition floating around somewhere that I did for 'Bates Motel.' "
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Audition
Around
Floating
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Brand
Ambassador
Become
" We're only here for so long. Be happy, man. You could get hit by a truck tomorrow. "
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Be Happy
Happy
Truck