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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Oscar Isaac

Seeing

Successful

Empathy

" I've never been interested in celebrity. "

" I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is. "

" I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?' "

" I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie. "

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

" There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck. "

" I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen. "

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

" I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in. "

" With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly. "

" There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are. "

" When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances. "

" 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. "

" 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 think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher. "

" I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player. "

" A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear. "

Oscar Isaac

Weird

You

" I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people. "

" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "

" I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.' "

" 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. "

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

" It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way. "

" My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans. "

" I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands. "

" Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things. "

Oscar Isaac

Way

Morality

" Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it. "

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