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" Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days. "

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" My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre. "

" What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous. "

" I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor. "

" My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig. "

" Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to watch whatever magic special was on as a kid, but then, it's not that I lost interest, but to be a magician, you really, it's really hard work. Learning lines is hard enough; learning sleight of hand, that's real practice. "

" I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. "

" The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances. "

" It doesn't matter to me what the genre is. "

" I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.' "

" To me, it doesn't really matter how big the part is as long as the part is important to the story. "

" I never know what I'm going to get. A 'Sopranos' fan is very different from a 'Big Lebowski' fan. "

" I'm always looking for other interesting films to either act in or direct. "

" The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor. "

" My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom. "

" I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once. "

" I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him. "

" By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had. "

" To me, score is really important. I would rather not have any score if it's something that's going to detract from the film. So often when I watch films, the score is what really bothers me. "

" I'm not so in a rush to direct just anything because I'm lucky that I can make a living so far as an actor and not have to worry about that as a director. And so I can be a little more choosy in things I direct. "

" I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way. "

" When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed. "

" I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor. "

" Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it. "

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" They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. "