Eric Stoltz Quotes
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
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I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
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It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.
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I’ve never watched an entire episode of "American Idol." It’s too mean. Why would anyone want to go on a show to be ripped apart? I don’t want to be tough with my singers, but I do want to tell them on "The Voice" that if you really want this, you’ll be kicked when you’re down. You have to be willing to roll with those punches. You have to really want it.
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I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!
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I wore one on the first episode of season one [of Fuller House], and then I saw it, and I went back to my hairstylist, and I was like, "We are never using this again!" I know it was a good throwback for that first season, but I am 40, I cannot pull off a scrunchie anymore. Nobody should be wearing a scrunchie anymore. I feel angry. That is my tipping point.
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I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first.
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Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...
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The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
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I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did Reno 911! for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing, and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the Star Trek thing.
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That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.
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I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.
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I was always prepared for my Fringe journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they kept bringing me back in the third season as a recurring character. So pretty much every time I went to film a 'Fringe' episode I kind of said goodbye to the show, but then they kept bringing me back.
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Ten episodes goes by really quickly, especially when you've got a really tough shooting schedule of seven-day episodes.
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I love collaboration. I love working with people to come up with something better than what I initially thought. With directing, you have to be controlling in a lot of ways, but I find myself trying to battle against that, to not be controlling, because that's when great things can come about, beyond how great you think you can be.
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In general, there is no way to explain what an individual photon does, and we have good reasons to believe that this is not just our ignorance, but that this fundamental role of probability is a basic feature of how the universe works.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'
