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" A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them. "
Always
Way
Things
" Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it. "
Potential
Anger
Just
" At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch. "
Would
Stage
Want
" Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. "
Now
Main
Interest
" Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to. "
Acting
Craft
Learn
" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "
Hold
You
Gets
" Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was. "
Movies
Television
Actor
" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "
Am
I Am
Justin
" I am a limousine liberal. "
Liberal
I Am
Am
" I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "
I Can
Situation
See
" I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies. "
Director
Movies
Living
" I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy. "
Love
Audience
You
" I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important. "
Choose
Speak
Movies
" I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema. "
Good
Home
Family
" I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns. "
Myself
Political
Fall
" I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. "
Actor
Director
Working
" If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game. "
Ahead
Thoughts
Two
" I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. "
Moment
House
Family
" I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments. "
Want
Know
Freedom
" I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one. "
Reciprocal
Like
Love
" I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with. "
Character
True
Rhythm
" I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling. "
Respect
Tell
You
" I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors. "
Love
Acting
Favorite People
" I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them. "
Smart
Doing
Help
" I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies. "
Movies
Bad
Good
" I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it. "
Out
Always
Leave
" I'm not a breakfast eater. "
Eater
Breakfast
" In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. "
Where
You
Movies
" In my teens, I fell in love with the movies. "
Love
Teens
Movies
" In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. "
School
Every
Genius
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