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![“[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual stories for each character, and then you do this sort of comedy geometry, weaving them together. Once you've got a funny structure and you know why the scenes are funny, then you get…” quote by Jeff Schaffer](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/34d/jeff-schaffer-61497_actors_in-comedy-you-never-want-to-leave-the-ac_2937400.jpg)
![“What I love about the way they both [Paul Thomas Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix] work is that all of the monkey business is on film. There's no monkey business outside of the monkey business of making the movie. There's no ego bullshit, there's no wasted energy. It's all directed at the story and…” quote by Katherine Waterston](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/17a/katherine-waterston-8062_bullshit_what-i-love-about-the-way-they-both-paul_358092.jpg)
![“I don't know what the misconceptions are, but I approach a small budget, artsy, independent movie in the same way as a big budget, commercial Hollywood movie. I don't get into those [details]. I have to get into my character and I concentrate on that, on the story, on researching, and on certain…” quote by Olga Kurylenko](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ea8/olga-kurylenko-10986_approach_i-don-t-know-what-the-misconceptions-are_1067646.png)
![“I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into community organizing. What stuck was to reveal the sacredness of ordinary people's lives. That everybody has a story. And I think Studs is terrific at drawing out that…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/8d7/barack-obama-17_community_i-remember-reading-studs-terkel-s-workin_3056170.jpg)
