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" I'd say that the director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell in 'In the Soup'. It was one of my earliest leading roles, and he gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor. "

Steve Buscemi

Soup

Responsibility

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" 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. "

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Know

Review

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

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

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Genre

Matter

" The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor. "

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Actor

Responsibility

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

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Matter

Story

" 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. "

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Joy

Sharing

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

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Problems

" I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors. "