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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel. "

" I'm so bored by business and money. "

" If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out. "

" You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there. "

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

" 'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other. "

" If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves. "

" 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'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. "

" J. J. Abrams is amazing. "

" I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.' "

" You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in. "

" 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. "

" All of my high school issues are resolved! "

" I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident. "

" I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return. "

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

" I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year. "

" Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us. "

" 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. "

" In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that. "

" Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years. "

" 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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