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" I think we all have light and dark inside us. "

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" I think life's an irrational obsession. "

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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. "

" My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple. "

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

" Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. "

" I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns. "

" I think you start to prepare the minute you read something. "

" I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times. "

" I'm not a breakfast eater. "

" When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself. "

" There's not a lot of good movies being made. "

" I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling. "

" The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that. "

" 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. "

" Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you. "

" There is no re-inventing the wheel. "

" In my teens, I fell in love with the movies. "

" There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies. "

" There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. "

" I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much. "

" I am a limousine liberal. "

" There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that. "

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

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" What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts. "

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