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" I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it. "

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" I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema. "

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

" I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling. "

" Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was. "

" 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. "

" There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort. "

" 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 am a limousine liberal. "

" Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to. "

" I think we all have light and dark inside us. "

" I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them. "

" There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies. "

" In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. "

" I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns. "

" I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times. "

" Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with. "

" Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that. "

" I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy. "

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

" That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. "

" The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. "

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

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

" What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts. "

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

" Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. "