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Sharing public space will allow the different groups to learn from each other and make student involvement easier. It will also benefit the individual centers...
...growing a mustache for no reason, and Paul's way of dealing with it was, "Come on over here and we're going to shoot something on video," and all of a sudden we're doing a Cops parody, and yeah, the only point in doing it was to make each other laugh and just entertain each other, so it was a little bit more over the top, but, that said, a lot of the dialogue from those improvisations ended up in the movie. And I think Paul deepened the role in other ways, but a lot of the kind...
...Yeah, it's odd... This was a very challenging movie for all of us to make after the kind of picnic we had on Boogie Nights. But at the same time, we all know each other really well, so it wasn't like there's some stranger doing some scene that I don't even know what it's about.... So we still felt connected to each other even though we're all filming the movie in this kind of episodic fashion. I think that Paul did that on purpose, that it's an ensemble movie but the ensemble doesn...
...there! Now do this! Now, turn those lights up!" Paul can do all of that, but I think his real, like, secret weapon with actors is, he really listens. He's sitting there...staring intently at what you're doing and watching every single subtle little change that you make from take to take, and gets in there and talks with you about it, you know-doesn't talk too much--gives you a lot of freedom, and a lot of leeway to interpret how you're going to get what he's asked you to get. But yeah...
...kind of pissed off at him because I felt like he sandbagged the movie right before it came out, had this huge tussle with the studio about this ridiculous scene that... It's just stupid, you know? I mean, he should have just trusted Sam Raimi to make a good movie, and he tried to subvert Sam's power in the movie and I was just kind of let down by it. I thought he was more of a team player than that, frankly, to use a sports analogy...