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" I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself. "

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" It took me a good decade of hiding in my house and not going outside to even, like, get my arms around this idea of celebrity, where suddenly people are looking for you to pick your nose or get a shot of you kissing some woman. It's a very discombobulating thing. "

" I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like? "

" Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive. "

" When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols. "

" We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same. "

" I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost. "

" You must lose everything in order to gain anything. "

" Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life. "

" America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong. "

" You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop. "

" Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed. "

" The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on. "

" I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling. "

" In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging. "

" My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back. "

" I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me. "

" It's those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it's a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses. "

Difficult Times

" I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place. "

" I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination. "

" It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself. "

" By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop. "

" With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you. "

" I don't feel restless, I just like to travel. "