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" I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else. "

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" It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that. "

Oscar Isaac

Character

Nice

Journey

" Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it. "

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

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

" I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that. "

" Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves. "

" I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently. "

" I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York. "

" 'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films. "

" Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly. "

Oscar Isaac

Friend

Very

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

" I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar. "

" There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are. "

" When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances. "

" I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view. "

" I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it. "

" What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to perceive you. So, that is an absolutely essential part of building a character. "

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

" There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices. "

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

" I like the idea of the comedy of resilience. "

Oscar Isaac

Resilience

Comedy

" I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands. "

" All of my high school issues are resolved! "

" I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.' "

" I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it. "

" I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role. "

" I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie. "

" I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player. "

" 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.' "

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