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" I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous. "

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" Los Angeles doesn't have as vital a theatre as New York does. And that's something that really interests me. "

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" It's not that I don't want to be famous. It's just that I don't feel like the burden of responsibility on selling a film should be on the actors. "

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" I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing. "

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