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I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
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I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.
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I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.
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In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.
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I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.
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Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
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I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.
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My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
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I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.
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If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.
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It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.
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As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.
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On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.
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