Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "

" I am a limousine liberal. "

" 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. "

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

" A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them. "

" I really love to make movies. "

" I think life's an irrational obsession. "

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

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

" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "

" There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that. "

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

" I'm not a breakfast eater. "

" Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things. "

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

" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "

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

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

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

" I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much. "

" We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "