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" At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore. "

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" 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. "

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" You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money. "

" I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker. "

" There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor. "

" People are sheepish when they approach me. "

" I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do. "

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" The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me. "

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" What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive. "

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" Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood. "

" But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas. "

" My sisters are my favorite people on earth. "

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" I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds. "

" Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children. "

" I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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