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" A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making. "
Film
Done
Time
" A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing. "
Movies
Opportunity
Career
" At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore. "
Hire
Place
Actor
" But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns. "
Particularly
Around
Comfortable
" But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas. "
Ideas
Want
People
" Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect. "
Business
Find
You
" Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. "
Happy
Great Man
Great
" I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do. "
Proud
Want
I Am
" I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people. "
Grow
Me
Will
" I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion. "
Always
Brother
Three
" I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues. "
Up
World
Early
" I learn so much more in an ensemble movie. "
Much
Learn
More
" I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker. "
Being
Interested
Studio
" I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds. "
Landscape
Respond
Different
" I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce. But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings? If someone lives through an accident, his aim is to become better and healthy. My aim is always to progress - to make better decisions and be a better father, a better boyfriend, a better husband if it happens again. "
Progress
Sadness
Father
" It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly. "
Nice
You
Want
" I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live. "
Age
Wife
Time
" I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30. "
Film
Time
Something
" I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense. "
Talk
Want
Leave
" I won't make a movie for money ever again. "
Movie
Make
Again
" LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight. "
People
Environment
Creative
" Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around. "
Best
Look
Loved
" My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye. "
Young
Black
Boy
" My sisters are my favorite people on earth. "
People
Favorite
Favorite People
" People are sheepish when they approach me. "
Approach
Me
People
" Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them. "
Really
Enjoy
Them
" Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood. "
Way
Break
Finding
" The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me. "
Seen
You
Something
" The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically. "
Understand
Mean
Just Because
" There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts. "
Stories
Found
Great
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