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"We have little bits of comedy throughout our films but this is like a full-on comedy. I had great time. It was fun to do a comedy and see a lot of the people I worked with on our previous films and meet some new actors. It was a good experience for me."
"What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want."
"Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor."
"If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs."
"To be an actor in the society in Israel, you have to be ten times better than the Israeli Jews. To get the roles in mainstream theater or to get any role, not typecast as an Arab. And also if you are ten times better, not all the time you get the opportunity."
"Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet."
"The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors."
"Every movie is unknown."
"Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more."
"After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism."
"You become the movie you are making."
"I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about."
"Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that."
"A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement."
"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime."
"The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at, to me. I love production design and bells and whistles and all of that. I love a technograin as much as the next gal, but a great actor's face? What else should we be looking at?"
"The reason actors are assholes is because they don't eat."
"Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director."
"As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know."
"An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something."
