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" A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution. "
Just
Good
Execution
" And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise. "
Now
Audience
Reach
" Blame is for God and small children. "
Children
Small
Blame
" For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible. "
American
Believe
Grief
" I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil. "
Power
War
Money
" I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits. "
Because
School
Become
" I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories. "
Best
Marathon
Memories
" I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in. "
Book
Working
Been
" I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation. "
Look
Sunset
Vacation
" I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed. "
Carry
Never
Like
" If there is no direct threat why are we invading? "
Why
Threat
Invading
" If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy. "
Family
Caring
You
" In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win. "
Back
Play
Win
" I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly. "
Thought
Writing
Start
" I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation. "
Director
Challenge
Think
" I think there's always going to be some kind of bigotry or some kind of racism. There has to be, because people can't feel that they have any hero qualities unless there's someone beneath them. "
Feel
Racism
Hero
" Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it. "
Life
Stinks
You
" Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us. "
Fantasy
Bring
Together
" One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed. "
Star
Fear
Successful
" Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student. "
Black
Think
Sheep
" So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me. "
Year
Army
Acting
" There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom. "
Human
You
I Can
" The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk. "
Two
Milk
Sunshine
" Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had. "
Character
Back
Long
" Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes. "
Never
House
More
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