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" Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not. "

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" There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there. "

" I grew up on the golden age of children's TV. "

" I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school. "

" If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience. "

" I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another. "

" I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through. "

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" Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family. "

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" I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be. "

" It's nice when someone knows their lines. "

" The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about. "

" You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me. "

" I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines. "

" I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it. "

" I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government. "

" I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions. "

" Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced. "

" Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways. "

" My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s. "

" I just like working with smart people. "

" I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw? "

" Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times. "

" I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up. "

" You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. "

" Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it. "

" When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script. "

" I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. "

" I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. "