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Impressionists Have To Paint With A Very Broad Stroke Because You've Got To See It Within A Couple Of Seconds. You Go, "that's A Really Funny Robert De Niro." As An Actor, Though, You Look At Different Aspects Of A Character. I Try To Completely Surround Myself With The Assignment. It's Like Being In A Big Cloud And Then Some Of It Rains Through.

The Thing A Drama School Can't Give You Is Instinct. It Can Sharpen Instinct But That Can't Be Taught, And You Have To Have Intuition. It's An Essential Ingredient.

I Like Celluloid, I Like Film, I Like The Way That When A Movie Is Projected It Sort Of Breathes A Little In The Gate. That's The Magic Of It To Me.

It's A Shame About California, And Particularly About L.a., Where They've Demolished So Many Landmarks. It's A Bit Of A Disease There, Where If Anything Is Over 30 Years Old, They Sort Of Knock It Down And Replace It. It's A Strange Town, It's This Sprawling Suburb, And Then There's A City, The Old Town.

One Of My Career Ambitions Was Fulfilled Working With John [hurt]. I Loved His Work Long Before I Ever Had The Idea Of Being An Actor, So I Was Nervous To Meet Him. I Was Like A Fanboy, Like That Annoying Character On 'saturday Night Live'. I'm Sitting There. 'do You Remember When You Were In 'midnight Express'? Remember That Scene You Were In?' And He Doesn't Disappoint.