My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of … - Gabriel Mann

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People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.

Gabriel Mann

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

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One thing I loved about New Zealand was the indoor
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to. . . 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L. A. during the big boom of Dawsons Creek. I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, Did I really have to do all that studying?

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I know when I watch a film at this point, if I completely lose myself in the characters and the story and the world of the film I know that it's at least in my opinion, that was great. Otherwise I'm thinking: "Oh I know they were just doing A, B and C, right before they walked into the scene, then the camera was there, then they probably took the shot from this reverse close-up and moved it into this. " When all of that drops away then I'm like: "Okay this was phenomenal, this was fantastic. " I mean, any film or TV performance in general is probably good.

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I think you kind of hope for people gush over movies, but I think the opposite is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.

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