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Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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William Hall Macy Jr.
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The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.
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What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.
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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.
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I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
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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.
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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
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Sometimes, directors are afraid to stop shooting, because the second you stop and say, We got it, and move on, you'll never get another chance. And they're terrified to get in the cutting room and not be happy. So they just keep shooting.
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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.
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We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.
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The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, It's going to be my face up there on the frickin' screen, so I better keep my wits about me. Nobody's going to care that I was bad because I was not happy. They're only going to know I'm bad.
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Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.
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You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure.
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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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Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. It's not right. Someone's gotta say it. They said it. I applaud them.
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We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
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