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" I had to keep reminding myself in 'Blue Valentine' that I was actually making a film. "

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" I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too. "

" People don't step outside themselves and make the film they want to make, because they're afraid of the reaction. But once you get that reaction and have lived through it, there's nothing they can do to get you down. "

" I feel like one of the things that I watched that I felt was really helpful in some way but, more than anything, is worth mentioning was this film 'Boogie Man.' It's a documentary about Lee Atwater. "

" I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world. "

" I was very impressed by Walt Disney and the idea that you could have a dream and you could realize it to the point where people could walk around within it... It still resonates with me. I wanted to be somebody who believed in their ideas that much. "

" Some of the styles of dance in 'La La Land' I wish I had spent time on when I was a kid. "

" I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you. "

" I'm from Canada, and I think, like everyone growing up anywhere else in the world, you are very aware of America - it sort of looms large in its legend, and so did Detroit. "

" I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens. "

" When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging. "

" I try not to discriminate against genres. "

" I don't know enough about manliness to define it. "

" I grew up in a town called Cornwall, Ontario, which is about an hour outside of Montreal. "

" I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies. "

" If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope. "

" It's interesting the kind of freedom the musical form gives you. The rules are out the window. You can get impressionistic without seeming pretentious. Because it's perceived as an inherently accessible form, it gives filmmakers some leeway. "

" I grew up on Mel Brooks films. That was film to me until I got a little bit older and realised there were other kinds of movies. "

" I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion. "

" I felt like I was going crazy as a kid. I wanted to be man, get a job. "

" If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things. "

" I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith. "

" I really feel like if they'd have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I'd have done much better. I have to move. But you know, that's disruptive for the class, and as a result, there was a ripple effect of having to sit still that found its way into every aspect of my life. "

" Any time you stick your neck out in high school, there's someone right there to chop your head off. "

" I think I was always bound to become two selves, if I wasn't already. "

" I wish I could be Peter Falk. "

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" My home life now is mostly women. They are better than us. They make me better. "

" I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor. "

" What's nice with comedy is that you know it's working if it's funny. "