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I've obviously always been aware of actor-oriented films, being an actor. Altman and Cassavetes were really strong. And then I realized their structures were…

— John Cameron Mitchell

I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented…

— Carmen Ejogo

There's so much confidence and freedom that comes from that way of doing things. Robert Altman and Alan Rudolph make the set the place…

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

I was very much aiming to go into movies eventually, like a lot of 'SNL' people. But, soon after I arrived, all these really…

— Seth Meyers

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

— Condola Rashad

I never saw an actor and thought, 'Wow, I want to be like that.' It's just I wanted it to be part of my…

— Marc-Andre Grondin

When I was younger, I looked to actors like they were from another planet. You couldn't believe you could be anywhere near that world.…

— Jim Sturgess

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from…

— Steven Spielberg

All the adults in my family were actors, so there wasn't much else in terms of role models. I fell in love with that…

— Johnny Flynn

When I was young, I was really, really obsessed with Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes. Because my mom was a projectionist in college, she…

— Winona Ryder

I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.

— Dante Ferretti

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors…

— Peter Facinelli