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

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" 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. "

" I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with. "

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

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

" On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing. "

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

" Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it. "

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

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

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

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

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" Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger. "

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

" Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times. "

" 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. "

" When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate. "

" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "

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

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

" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "