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" I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds. "

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" Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood. "

" A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making. "

" I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live. "

" At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore. "

" There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor. "

" I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion. "

" I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce. But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings? If someone lives through an accident, his aim is to become better and healthy. My aim is always to progress - to make better decisions and be a better father, a better boyfriend, a better husband if it happens again. "

" To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me. "

" You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money. "

" A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing. "

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" I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30. "

" My sisters are my favorite people on earth. "

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" Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them. "

" LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight. "

" But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas. "

" I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people. "

" There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to. "

" I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense. "

" I learn so much more in an ensemble movie. "

" Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children. "

" I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do. "

" Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect. "

" There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts. "

" But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns. "

" Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. "