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" 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. "

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" Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation. "

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

" The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting. "

" The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation. "

" I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in. "

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

" I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people. "

" What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was. "

" I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is. "

" I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them. "

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" My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason. "

" All of my high school issues are resolved! "

" Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us. "

" The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment. "

" I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary. "

" Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation. "

" 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 wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool. "

" Talent is very hot. "

" I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher. "

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

" There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices. "

" The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark. "

" Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years. "

" The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence. "

" Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid. "

" Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve. "

" For me, with a character, you start with the shoes. "

" I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino. "