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Brian J. Smith

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I've been doing sci-fi for two years, and there is always something big going on. The stakes are always huge. You're fighting for your life, or you're dealing with personal stuff. It has really high stakes attached to it, and there are green screen and explosions. You're going out on these really cool locations. - Brian J. Smith
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You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult. - Brian J. Smith
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I saw a production of 'The Seagull' at Dallas Theatre Center when I was in high school, and it really did a number on me. - Brian J. Smith
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You're not supposed to do a television series that takes place in nine cities all over the globe. Everyone will tell you that that's undoable. - Brian J. Smith
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First season of 'Survivor' - Richard Hatch was fascinating. - Brian J. Smith
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As storytellers, we tend to want to force-feed everything and have everybody understand everything right away, and we freak out if they don't. - Brian J. Smith
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I wonder if Louis Ferreira would be interested in directing. - Brian J. Smith
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Gosh, for me, when I was 15 or 16 years old, I was just starting to understand ideas and film and things like that. And then, you go see a movie like 'The Matrix' that absolutely blows your mind. It's not just trying to entertain you, but it's also trying to explore something about human nature and ask some really deep questions. - Brian J. Smith
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You'll get, like, 10 pages of sides the night before, and you have to go in and just wing it. For someone like me, I came from the theater, and I don't like putting anything up in front of anybody until it's really, really ready, so it can be very frustrating. - Brian J. Smith
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I try not to read acting books any more, but they set a high bar for me very early on. - Brian J. Smith
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What is it like to get in someone's head and hunt them from inside their eyes? That's so freaky to me. - Brian J. Smith
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When I was a first year student at Julliard, I wasn't happy, not sure about this acting thing. - Brian J. Smith
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When you think someone really has the upper hand, you realize that someone has been played the entire time, and there's a whole other layer where you think the person who is doing the playing has also been played. - Brian J. Smith
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Nothing changes if we keep playing it safe. - Brian J. Smith
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People aren't making as many movies as they used to, so youve got a lot of really big-name actors who are coming in, and they want to do pilots, so things kind of disappear for those of us who kind of have to still get in the room and audition and read for it. - Brian J. Smith
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Juilliard. It was a brutal and beautiful experience. - Brian J. Smith
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When you have 12 hours of storytelling, the cool thing about it is that you get to really leave people with question marks, but hopefully wanting to come back. - Brian J. Smith
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