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" 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. "

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" 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've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music. "

" There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck. "

" 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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" 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. "

" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "

" When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind. "

" A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear. "

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

" 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 think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that. "

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

" 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. "

" I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi. "

" That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro. "

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

" 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 grew up in a very devoutly Christian home. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush. "

" You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't. "

" I'm so bored by business and money. "

" 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. "

" When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in. "

" People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel. "