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

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

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

" When I moved to the East Village in the late seventies, I wanted to be a street performer, so I practiced daily. I never did work up the skills or the courage to perform on the street, though. "

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

" 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. "

" Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for, like, a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days. "

" I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part. "

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

" I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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 did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin. "

" I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously. "

" I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write. "

" What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous. "

" Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters. "

" It doesn't matter to me what the genre is. "

" I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York. "

" 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 could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path. "

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

" 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 read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life. "

" 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. "

" I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with. "

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