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" Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun. "
Tommy Lee Jones
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" Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive. "
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" No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others. "
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" I'm an introspective guy when there's money in it. "
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" I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do. "
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" My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. "
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" Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I've always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions. "
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" I probably watch less than one hour of television a week. And when I do watch television, it's usually a football game. Sometimes I'll watch a news broadcast for a few minutes. Otherwise, I don't have time. "
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" Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious. "
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" My grandmother grew up in a 19th-century world, and my daughter has grown up in a 21st-century world, and some issues, problems, dilemmas that these women face have not changed. "
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" You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them. "
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" I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character. "
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" Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity. "
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" I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored. "
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