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" Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways. "

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" Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing. "

" Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it. "

" You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. "

" Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film. "

" I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another. "

" I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school. "

" People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest. "

" All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard. "

" Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful. "

" I'm a New Yorker, you know. "

" I just like working with smart people. "

" If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running. "

" I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films. "

" I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be. "

" It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing. "

" Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times. "

" I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another. "

" I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. "

" You can't control everything that comes to you. "

" I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece. "

" I like music, but I need to get outside more. "

" I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. "

" I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw? "

" When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. "

" I just love movies. "

" I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert. "

" Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not. "

" Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family. "

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" The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. "

" Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity. "