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Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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Miami
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William Hall Macy
William Hall Macy Jr.
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If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get paid a fortune and hang out in a huge trailer.
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Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.
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I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
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Perhaps there is such a thing as obscene sex, but I know that violence is always obscene. So I don't get it, that you can disembowel a woman but you can't see her tits. Who made that up? That's sick!
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I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.
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So much of the violence in the movies is b.s. violence: A guy in the middle of a large city with 14 people lying on the ground that he's just killed with his superhuman powers, and there's not a cop to be found. Not a siren to be heard. No price to be paid. That's not true, and I don't like that sort of stuff.
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You'd much rather act with a pal, someone you know really well. That way, you can cut all the niceties and go right to insulting each other.
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It’s a shame...you just don’t see young people doing anything outside these days.
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When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.
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A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.
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When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.
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I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an actor to have the big picture in mind - it bollocks you up. An actor's purview is the tiny little... We measure our performance in seconds.
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