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Tony Goldwyn
American
Actor
About the author
I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.
Tony Goldwyn,
American
Actor
#Actor
#Collaboration
The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.
Tony Goldwyn,
American
Actor
#Success
#Decisions
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.
Tony Goldwyn,
American
Actor
#Hollywood
#World
#Parents
#Memories
I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.
Tony Goldwyn,
American
Actor
#Want
#Writing
#Actors
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.
Tony Goldwyn,
American
Actor
#Hollywood
#Saying
#Name
I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?
Tony Goldwyn,
American
Actor
#Action
#Want
I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Tony Goldwyn,
American
Actor
#Wonder
#Day
#Example
#Extreme
If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level.
Tony Goldwyn,
American
Actor