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" If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out. "

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" I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that. "

" Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us. "

" I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is. "

" I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it. "

" The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence. "

" You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there. "

" For me, with a character, you start with the shoes. "

" My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason. "

" I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them. "

Surround Yourself

" I don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don't do that. I don't go looking for stuff that I'm interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie's about. It's so much more fun to be surprised. "

" When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind. "

" There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are. "

" I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands. "

" I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.' "

" My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff. "

" A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear. "

" There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices. "

" I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return. "

" Talent is very hot. "

" Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation. "

" I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar. "

" All of my high school issues are resolved! "

" How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality. "

" I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie. "

" I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi. "

" I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush. "

" My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen. "

" I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino. "

" I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it. "

" I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music. "