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" A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience. "

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" I grew up on the golden age of children's TV. "

" I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility. "

" Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times. "

" No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. "

" It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing. "

" I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece. "

" I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through. "

" I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw? "

" Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film. "

" People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest. "

" I just like working with smart people. "

" The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about. "

" I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government. "

" I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines. "

" I like music, but I need to get outside more. "

" I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another. "

" I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass. "

" All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard. "

" If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running. "

" When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. "

" I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school. "

" I don't get much out of doing a red carpet. "

" Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not. "

" You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me. "

" The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made. "

" I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up. "

" Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it. "

" I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do. "

" There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there. "