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" If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game. "

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

" When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life. "

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

" You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle. "

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

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

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

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" I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments. "

" Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it. "

" I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that. "

" I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one. "

" It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama. "

" The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that. "

" In my teens, I fell in love with the movies. "

" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "

" Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. "

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

" I am a limousine liberal. "

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

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

" The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus. "

" You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for. "

" 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've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth. "

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

" I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. "

" There is no re-inventing the wheel. "

" I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. "

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

" 'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head. "