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Paul Giamatti

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“Yeah, that's true. I mean, it is. And I think that, you know, the movie Alexander's movies have a lot to do with class. They do. It's interesting. And you don't necessarily see it in some of them. I mean, sideways actually has a lot, even that movie has a lot about class in it built into it. So I think he's very concerned and interested in it as an issue in America, as an American issue. And so it's a good sort of laboratory to study that is education. And it brings out things about the characters too. You know, this guy's resentments and bitterness.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't think I would be good because I don't think I would be the opposite of the guy in the movie. I don't think I'd have an ounce of discipline. I think I'd just be one of those guys who's like, everybody gets an A. This is great. Let's all, you know, let's all go take a break today and go take a walk. I think I'd be one of those guys. And that's not good either.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I wanted to be an actor. I mean, I would have thought about it sort of glancingly, I thought, well, maybe I'll go into the family business and become a teacher. But I don't think I would have been a good one.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I come from a family of teachers. You do. Everybody's teachers. My parents were teachers. My grandparents were teachers. My brothers were teacher now. It's like everybody's teachers. So teaching is a big thing. And my dad teaching and education and all of it was a big, big, big thing in my.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, there's a kind of attempt to build this kind of nostalgic sort of reference to these English schools, but it doesn't really go that far. They are kind of, they don't quite accomplish this sort of fanciness that they set out to be.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's all really snowing when you see it snowing. And I think it makes a difference. You can feel it. Like you said, the seeping cold. You can feel it. And then we were on actual locations, five different schools to create the one school. And lots of decrepit buildings and stuff we shot in where you would hear the clanking heaters when it turned on. So the atmosphere was great for acting in because it felt it was cold and it was sort of old and it felt like that thing. And it captures the new. He's great at capturing regional feel and atmosphere.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was cold, and we were there for about two months or so, two and a half months shooting, maybe. And we were outside Boston and in Boston. And one of the things Alexander was pretty fixated on and why it was tricky to schedule it was he wanted weather. He wanted snow. And we got really good snow for this. And in this movie, there's no fake snow.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yes, absolutely. Yeah. You know, I come from a background where there's a lot of elite people, but I had not met sort of like really wealthy kids from New York that I'd never really been around kids like that. So I was even sort of taken aback by a lot of it.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Class as these kids, either. So it's like, you know, he's got a lot of built up, present them towards them for that. And I think he feels terrible for the woman about her son. You know, lots of things. He's a good man. He's not a nice man, but he's a good man underneath it, which is an interesting thing to play.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I like it though. I like it. Yeah, it's great Well, it's interesting. I mean, the whole relationship between him and Mary is an interesting one. It's never really stated particularly, but there's some sort of sympathico between the two of them that blossoms through the movie, that, you know, they don't even necessarily even know it's there. But, you know, I think she sees him and recognizes an outsider and he sees her and recognizes an outsider for different reasons. But, you know, they both feel marginal in the place. And I think he's the only person who's probably, we talked about this, Daveon and I briefly. He's probably about the only one who even acknowledges her and knows her name. And likewise, she treats him, you know, I mean, she's funny with him and makes fun of him and stuff, but there's a kind of rapport. And I think the guy just has, you know, he's got a sort of complicated background. He's a scholarship student. He's from presumably kind of working class background. He's not the same.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Mary. Maybe you would die. Maybe you would care to join us. All right, thank you I mean, I know she's sad about her son and everything, but still she's getting paid to do a job, and she should do it well, right? But I guess no matter how bad a cook she is, now they can never fire her. Shut up! You have no idea what that woman has been through. You know Mr. Kootz for most people, life is like a henhouse ladder, shitty and short. You were born lucky Maybe someday you entitled little degenerates will appreciate that. If you don't, I feel sorry for you. And we will have failed to do our jobs. Now eat.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The glare? Oh, the sad eyed look. Yes. The sad eyed look. Yeah, but it's like there's something great about containing all of it and not sort of the energy not going into your words, but into everything else.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's not just that, it's that film acting is so much of it as the inarticulate stuff. You know what I mean? So much of it is just the face and the body being used to convey emotion without belief.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I chatter a lot in that. And no, I did a movie once. I think the one movie where I didn't talk a heck of a lot is a very little-known movie I did with Paul Rudd called All Is Bright, I think, in which he plays the chattery guy and I play the sort of silent and articulate guy. And I really enjoyed it.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I really don't know. It seems to me, I seem to be the go-to guy for a lot of these things. I mean, you know, I think it's an interesting question with an actor. How much of it is it something they bring to it or is it just something that begins to be brought to them because of something they've done before? You know, so it becomes a tricky question. I don't know. I do, you know, I play these kind of hyper articulate people. I do a lot of talking. And so I think early on people identified me as a guy that was good with the words. So that, I think, happens a lot. I would love to play a character sometimes doesn't talk as much. I would love it. I've only done it a few times and I really enjoy.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, he wants a kid. He wants a kid. This guy's kind of decided, well, he's decided that some ways that he never wanted a kid. He never cared. He didn't care about any of that. Whether he really does or not, I don't know. I mean, he's buried, whatever his feelings you have.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's got his fish melon in his eye and things like that. He has all these sorts of conditions that sort of set him apart and make him even more. He's also, I think he's actually more of a misfit and a bit more of an outsider than the Miles character.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's a similar guide at a different point in his life later in his life. I actually like this character a lot more. I think he's got a lot more grit and kind of sand. He's got a lot more backbone. He's a little bit more, I think he's tougher. He's not self-pitying in the same way that the other guy is. I just think that he...”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but it was only about 10 years afterwards. And a lot of those guys, I mean, there were girls there, but other than that, a lot of those guys were still there, those teachers were still there.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, oh, absolutely. I mean, it was all familiar to me, sure. And we were shooting in actual locations, actual schools, and the sort of costuming and the hair and makeup was uncanny. So it all felt very present again, yeah, traumatically so at times.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I went to Chote. I didn't board there, so I didn't have that special experience. So I don't know exactly what that would be like, but I went to Chote, yeah.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The thing I keep thinking, it's funny, I don't think we ever really discussed it, he and I, why I think part of it was my familiarity with the world and the background of it, sort of the prep school thing and the academic thing and that kind of world. I think that maybe is the baseline foundation of why he says he wrote it for me.”
2024-02-22 · On with Kara Swisher · Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT