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Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard. ↗

— Rod Taylor

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I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture. ↗

— Rod Taylor

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To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer. ↗

— Rod Taylor

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When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building. ↗

— Rod Taylor

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I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films. ↗

— Julie Taymor

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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral. ↗

— Randall Terry

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One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it. ↗

— Julie Taymor

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The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic. ↗

— Mel Gibson

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Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#delve #few #going #honest #honest truth

We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#contemporary #english #epic #epic poem #feel