They [teachers] beat it right out of me. Or they beat it into me and educated it out of me. I don't know; that's an interesting question. The Catholic schools required work, so I think that may have been where the work ethic came from, in answer to the question of how my character may have been shaped.

William Mapother

I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and therefore, I have to find my reward elsewhere.

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In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.

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labs new-york summer

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.

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college years school

Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.

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suggesting method actors

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

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english-major possibility theory

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

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thought-provoking sci-fi stories

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

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opera symphony morning

One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, "Oh it provided us so much entertainment," or "It inspired conversations."

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entertainment feelings people

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

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I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

William Mapother

easier emotion actors

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

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marketing actors thinking

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

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possibility priests thinking

I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.

William Mapother

stories years thinking

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

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dames too-much philosophy

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. Aside from the science aspect of it, the philosophical possibilities are so interesting.

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One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

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I feel honored to be a part of something that provided people with entertainment and that inspired conversations. I feel very, very fortunate.

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inspired entertainment people

One of the advantages of shooting digitally was that we had a lot of time. When you shoot, even if you do a good performance, it may get lost in the editing room. It's just one more way that a potentially good film might go astray.

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I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

William Mapother

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If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.

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