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• I'm a restless person. I get bored very quickly, particularly with myself. I've used acting as an escape and a way to channel my nervous energy. So I've always looked to find a role that's as different from the one before it. I need change and variety or start to feel depressed.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Bored, Acting, Energy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Géza Röhrig is just incredible because he's not an actor, he's a Hungarian poet. He also happens to be a brilliant actor. He's totally unusual, the way he talks and thinks and operates isn't in the same language as you're used to from actors who've been in a lot of things before. It brings this completely bizarre and fresh, wonderful way of approaching everything that I love being around. Not where I'm, as a producer, having to interact with him as an artist, but as somebody who can stand back and admire what he's bringing to this thing that I've nurtured to create a stage for him.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Artist, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Just getting to the point where we are now with 'To Dust' movie - where we've raised the money, put the crew together, signed all the actors up and are going on a certain date - is one of the biggest achievements of my life. It's nice, and producing definitely helps me to use the other side of my brain. I get brain fatigue from all of the creative drive.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Nice, Achievement, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's something different about an indie film than a TV show that has a huge infrastructure that's in place already for you - at least financially and in terms of distribution. Whereas an indie film is just a total dare.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Different, Film, Dare

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You're making these movies for pennies, there's absolutely nothing to offer anybody, and they will still fight you! "There's no more back-end for him? Well he'll have your back-end! He'll take your first born child!" Producing is totally exhausting.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Children, Fighting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Producing is the antidote to acting. Producing is practical problem solving all day long. As opposed to endless self-obsession and navel gazing.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Long, Acting, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't separate Robert DeNiro's comedy from the serious stuff. The one thing I realize working with him in all of his work, is that he doesn't do anything unless something happens to him in scenes - unless something happens to make him react. He never came in with a set idea of how he was going to do it, he never came in with guns blazing. He would just show up and wait to see what happened.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Gun, Waiting, Serious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Barry Levinson is such a deceptive director, because he seems really lackadaisical. I'd never worked with him before, and I almost got the impression that he didn't really care that much because he was so laid-back. Sometimes we'd finish filming hours before the day was over, which is just unthinkable in any other film experience I've had. I couldn't believe that Barry had the passion for it.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Believe, Passion, Care

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• For a long time a lot of people thought I'm British, because I'd done so many roles with English accents. People probably still think it. Or they don't think anything.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Music helps define the character and is an extension of the character somehow, so that you are able to use both the songs themselves and the way that you sing them to tell something about the character and his story, as well as develop a performance style.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Song, Character, Style

  Source: collider.com

• It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Writing, Film, Hard

  Source: collider.com

• It's not your responsibility to have the bigger picture in mind. But, the downside is that then, a lot of times, you're disappointed by the movies that are made around you.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Responsibility, Mind, Made

  Source: collider.com

• With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind of, just trying to capture one moment at a time, for the first time.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Preparation, Trying, Firsts

  Source: deadline.com