"It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese."

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I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

— Ben Mendelsohn