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" A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole, thrilling new form that I really enjoy. They are Tolstoy-an in their endless character development and narrative changes... a show like 'Breaking Bad' is astonishing. "
Character
Changes
Change
" All movies are pure process. A commercial movie isn't less process than an art movie. You can't make your decisions about a film on the basis of, 'Is it important enough? Is it serious enough?' It's either alive or it's not for me. If it's alive, I want to do it. "
Process
Art
Decisions
" All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it. "
Behavior
Circumstances
Great
" American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast. "
Food
Brother
Me
" A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't. "
Either
Like
You
" Any good movie is filled with secrets. "
Good
Any
Secrets
" A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be interpreted. You don't have a choice... Each play can become many things. "
Choice
Open
Mystery
" As a director, my job is, and always has been, divided into a number of things: dealing with the crew, the money and the studio, and the marketing and publicity. These are all different jobs that have to be learned and done as well as possible. The celebrity part rarely touches a director. "
Celebrity
Money
Job
" As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making them, seeing them - is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me. That puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy - love, family, food, movies. "
Family
Love
Joy
" Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth. "
Being
Person
Room
" 'Catch-22' was a nightmare to make, and everybody was unhappy except me. "
Unhappy
Everybody
Make
" Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares. "
You
Nobody
People
" Clay Aiken is amazing beyond that glorious voice. Turns out he is an excellent comic actor and a master of character. "
Actor
Amazing
Beyond
" Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though. "
Powerful
Brutal
Comedy
" Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile. "
Stay
Best
Road
" Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian. "
Wants
Known
Everybody
" Fear of comedy is all so much about who you do it with. "
Fear
Who
Much
" For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell. "
Director
Hell
Kind
" Here's the most mysterious thing to me. I look back at those first plays I did and the first movies I did, and I only have one question, which is, 'What was I so confident about? Where did I get that? "
Here
Me
Confident
" I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is a very strong subject. I think it may be my subject. "
People
Strong
Marriage
" I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine. "
Great
Good
Angry
" I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it. "
Talk
Want
Early
" I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition. "
Because
Silence
Rare
" I don't expect anything from reviews. Sometimes I am bemused by them. "
I Am
Expect
Sometimes
" I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world. "
Know
Free
Film
" If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes. "
Parent
Father
You
" If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance. "
Much
Think
You
" If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it's fun to do a lot of different things. "
Fun
Easy
You
" I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' My girl and I could not get up during intermission, we were so stunned. To this day it's the only thing I've seen on stage that's 100 percent real and 100 percent poetic simultaneously. "
Night
Desire
School
" I keep coming back to it, over and over - adultery and cheating. It's the most interesting problem in the theater. How else do you get Oedipus? That's the first cheating in the theater. "
Interesting
You
Cheating
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