I was born in the West Village in New York, and then when I was about four my … - Peter Vack

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You're about to walk on stage and play together for the next few hours so you want to feel connected and make sure that everyone is in the same head space; a good head space.

Peter Vack

I was born in the West Village in New York, and then when I was about four my family moved to what they joke is the suburbs, the Upper West Side. I lived there for most of my childhood.

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It's always nice to have a large role, but if it's a great small part, those can be so much fun. Size is less important than quality, always.

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What's nice about writing and making films is that being able to see a film from the outside - from the inception through production and then completion - just informs what you're doing when you're an actor. And when you're an actor, it informs the decisions you make when you're making a film. It's using two different sides of your personality.

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I was really able to confirm something that I knew on some level before I'd made a film. The best actors know how to really relax. Because in film, a lot of the decisions are made in the editing room, so when you're trying to guide your performance too much - always it's a push and pull because you can't be too relaxed. Too relaxed and it's like, "What are you doing?" Too tense and it's not good either.

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If you feel like you're working with good people, you give them your humanity and just let it happen.

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You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.

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