I've only been reminded in the last few days constantly that I've let five years pass. I'm not being deliberately obtuse about it, but I wasn't aware of that time passing. I was quite happily engaged in other things. I set out to indulge my curiosity in other things, not just to get away from this work.

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Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence -- the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

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I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

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The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

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Gangs of New York.

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