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" Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it. "

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" People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies. "

" 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. "

" It's a dream to be in a company of actors. "

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" Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways. "

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

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

" At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really. "

" I just like working with smart people. "

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

" 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 think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it. "

" If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running. "

" I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films. "

" I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass. "

" I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility. "

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

" In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story. "

" People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest. "

" You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with. "

" When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. "

" It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing. "

" 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? "