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Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that. Jason Alexander

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You need to find the size of performance that's appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene. Jason Alexander

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By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life. Jason Mraz

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As an actor, your focus is very finite. All you're worried about is your character and what you have to do, what your goals are in this scene and in this piece of material. Whereas, as the director, everything is your responsibility. I enjoy carrying the load like that and being the responsible party. Jason Priestley

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I don't consider myself bossy, but I do know what I want. You know, I have a gut feeling about a piece of material, but I've never envisioned myself as the director on top of the hill with a megaphone in my hand, screaming at 1,000 extras. Jason Reitman

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Scorsese will only work with brilliant material. And everyone wants to work with him. Jason Statham

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Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. Jawaharlal Nehru

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It would be nice sometimes to take a longer break in between projects, but unfortunately, the way that the business is, there's such a demand for new material on a consistent basis that it's nearly impossible to do that. Jay DeMarcus

I run the material, always with two people, sometimes three. We all see things so differently, so to get a couple of people's perspectives on what I'm doing and the material itself is insanely helpful for honing in on what to take into the audition room. Jay Ellis

Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with. Jay Hernandez

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I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material. Jayne Anne Phillips

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Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. Jean Froissart

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First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing. Jean Stapleton

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When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs. Jeff Dunham

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I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life. Jen Lancaster

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My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages. Jenkin Lloyd Jones

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I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though. Jennifer Egan

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You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material. Jennifer Egan

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For me, in general, it's always about the material. Obviously, it's about the material and hoping that someone wants to hire me for a job, too, but I've certainly seen films like 'Orphan' and movies like that where I know that if I had had the opportunity to read that script or had an opportunity to do it, I would have wanted to do it. Jennifer Morrison

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The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable. Jenny Lawson

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And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up. Jerry Garcia

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