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If the question was did we want to delay the revelation?... Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because the audience knows that that moment is coming and you want to make them wait for it. They have to suffer a bit.
William Mapother
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William Mapother
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: April 17
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Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.
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They [teachers] beat it right out of me. Or they beat it into me and educated it out of me. I don't know that's an interesting question. The Catholic schools required work, so I think that may have been where the work ethic came from, in answer to the question of how my character may have been shaped.
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I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.
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I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.
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If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.
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Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.
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It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.
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I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. Aside from the science aspect of it, the philosophical possibilities are so interesting.
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Look, we all know how hard it is for us to - I'm going to speak for myself - find a still photo of yourself that you like. Like how many times do people send photos and you're like, Oh burn it.
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I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.
William Mapother
I write, and when see a movie in which it's supernatural, some other worlds, or some other aspect to our world that we're not aware of, and [they] don't explain what the rules are, that kind of stuff drives me crazy.
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I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.
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I do like taking on responsibility, sometimes too much. But I was aware of that early on and it's something that came up in the previous set of interviews, and that is the actor‛s contribution.
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I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.
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One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.
William Mapother
I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.
William Mapother
I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.
William Mapother
I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.
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One of the advantages of shooting digitally was that we had a lot of time. When you shoot, even if you do a good performance, it may get lost in the editing room. It's just one more way that a potentially good film might go astray.
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