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I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
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Television Actor
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Miami
Florida
William Hall Macy
William Hall Macy Jr.
William Macy
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If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
William H. Macy
When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.
William H. Macy
I'm getting bigger roles, and I'm on location more, and I have a wife and family. I'd rather work less, and I've started to implement that. It was either that or my wife would break my heart.
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Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.
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It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.
William H. Macy
Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.
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Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.
William H. Macy
I am against censorship in any form. I think anybody should be able to make any movie he or she wants and let the public decide. If it's disgusting and they don't want to see it, they won't go. I believe in the audience.
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We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.
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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
William H. Macy
As an actor, early on, you learn that the audience is never wrong. And if you think they are wrong, you need to find a different way to make a living. Collectively the audience is smarter than you will ever, ever be.
William H. Macy
I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.
William H. Macy
I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
William H. Macy
I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.
William H. Macy
So many actors spend so much energy trying to remember the lines. It's so foolish. Guys are the worst.
William H. Macy
When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.
William H. Macy
We, in America, are so screwed up when it comes to sex. That's all we can see.
William H. Macy
One of the things I did early on in film was over-enunciate and talk too loud.
William H. Macy
One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
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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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