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Martin Donovan Quotes
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When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that’s death. You’re confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway? (Martin Donovan Quotes)
When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility. I was working at a downtown post-performance-art, avant garde theater company and doing a couple things on television. But I was a total unknown. (Martin Donovan Quotes)
Name your nation-state, or tribe or party - you have to rationalize what you’re doing. You have to go to sleep at night. Does Dick Cheney sleep at night? Does he sleep like a baby? (Martin Donovan Quotes)
I love watching Marty Scorsese’s films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man. (Martin Donovan Quotes)
I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world. (Martin Donovan Quotes)
Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor. (Martin Donovan Quotes)
My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about politics and everything that was going on in the world where I grew up. So I was genetically predisposed to go into the performing arts. (Martin Donovan Quotes)
A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted to see if I could tell an honest, organic story about characters that interest me. (Martin Donovan Quotes)