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

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

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" A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them. "

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

" I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments. "

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

" I think life's an irrational obsession. "

" It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama. "

" I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies. "

" I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important. "

" In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. "

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

" I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema. "

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

" Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that. "

" We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. "

" I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that. "

" 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. "

" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "

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

" 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. "

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