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" I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "

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" I think life's an irrational obsession. "

" Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. "

" Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. "

" Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with. "

" Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you. "

" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "

" I think you start to prepare the minute you read something. "

" I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. "

" I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth. "

" Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it. "

" When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life. "

" You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for. "

" Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things. "

" The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. "

" So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in. "

" I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors. "

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" I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling. "

" There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort. "

" In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. "

" I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. "

" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "

" I am a limousine liberal. "

" There's not a lot of good movies being made. "

" I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies. "

" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "

" Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger. "

" When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself. "

" Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing. "

" I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them. "

" My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple. "