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" It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny. "

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

" I think it's important to create an atmosphere where actors feel like they can try things out. It doesn't mean that I'll take every suggestion, but I want there to be some room for actors to grow. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I never know what I'm going to get. A 'Sopranos' fan is very different from a 'Big Lebowski' fan. "

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

" Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends. "

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

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

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

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

" When I was doing stand-up, I was about twenty, and I really think that that's a little too young. I didn't have a whole lot of life experience to draw on. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My dad had a temper. I have a temper. Most people I know have a temper. And I think it comes out mostly with your family. I don't think it's unique to the Buscemis, but it's something I've been able to tap into when I play certain roles. "

" Shooting in sequence, I think it intensifies everybody's relationship, the crew, the actors. You have to be very focused, and shooting at night is a challenge because you get tired. I think it requires a special kind of concentration, but it's also exhilarating. "

" 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. "

" The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances. "