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

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" 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 am a limousine liberal. "

" I think life's an irrational obsession. "

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

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

" I really love to make movies. "

" 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. "

" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "

" 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. "

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

" There is no re-inventing the wheel. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself. "

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