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" I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond. "

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" I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day. "

" People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual. "

" 'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching. "

" I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood. "

" Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be. "

" You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed. "

" Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride. "

" I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it. "

" Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios. "

" My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?' I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic. "

" I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do. "

" It may come as a surprise to people, but I'm actually quite boring and normal. What do I do? I read books. I drive my kid to school. I have lunch with my wife. I pick my kid up from school. I go home. "

" I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear. "

" I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that. "

" I came out of independent film, that's my roots. "

" I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. "

" God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction. "

" To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new. "

" I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience. "

" Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. "

" Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. "

" I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent. "

" I have a love / hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship. "

" I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it. "

" When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?' "

" I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear. "

" And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy. "

" Everything we do impacts someone else's life. "

" I've always had a soft spot for comic books. "

" In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too. "