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" I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make. "

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" I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing. "

" If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me. "

" You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else. "

" One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself. "

" I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time. "

" I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical. "

" You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting. "

" I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good. "

" You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke. "

" I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things. "

" I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork. "

" I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days. "

" I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job. "

" I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do. "

" There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case. "

" When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of. "

" There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out. "

" In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase. "

" I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing. "

" For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done. "

" Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about. "

" I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight. "

" I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems! "

" You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting. "

" I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him. "

" Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me. "

" If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years. "

" It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience. "

" I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In terms of television, 'Maverick' and 'Have Gun - Will Travel.' But filmically, classics like 'High Noon' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' - that's one of my favorite films. "