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" 'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films. "

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" I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part. "

" Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly. "

" Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid. "

" Talent is very hot. "

" I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them. "

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" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "

" I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music. "

" I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else. "

" I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently. "

" Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later. "

" I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary. "

" That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro. "

" The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence. "

" I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice. "

" A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated. "

" I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi. "

" All of my high school issues are resolved! "

" I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college. "

" I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool. "

" J. J. Abrams is amazing. "

" Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation. "

" I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that. "

" I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush. "

" I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar. "

" The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people. "

" I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role. "

" The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation. "

" I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino. "

" I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people. "