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It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.
Alessandro Nivola
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Alessandro Nivola
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 28
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The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.
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As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
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I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.
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Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
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There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.
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You're making these movies for pennies, there's absolutely nothing to offer anybody, and they will still fight you! There's no more back-end for him? Well he'll have your back-end! He'll take your first born child! Producing is totally exhausting.
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I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.
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It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.
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I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.
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People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.
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The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.
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There's something different about an indie film than a TV show that has a huge infrastructure that's in place already for you - at least financially and in terms of distribution. Whereas an indie film is just a total dare.
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I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.
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Producing is the antidote to acting. Producing is practical problem solving all day long. As opposed to endless self-obsession and navel gazing.
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I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.
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