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

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" There's not a lot of good movies being made. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "

" I think life's an irrational obsession. "

" 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. "

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

" Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger. "

" 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'm not a breakfast eater. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. "

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

" Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it. "

" When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate. "

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

" '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. "

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

" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "

" Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing. "

" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I am a limousine liberal. "