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" Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find. "

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" Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. "

" I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars. "

" The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies. "

" There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.' But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing 'Talk Soup' and 'Later' at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize. "

" When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready! "

" Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too. "

" It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. "

" I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit. "

" A man always looks good in a dark suit. "

" I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched. "

" I have always been interested in the concept of ruin. "

" I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. "

" I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place. "

" In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year. "

" I have a very well organized closet. "

" I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house. "

" My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls. "

" Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him? "

" Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting. "

" I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic. "

" When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace. "

" 'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for. "

" We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition. "

" You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table. "

" I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long. "

" We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual. "

" Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust. "

" The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive. "