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" It's a dream to be in a company of actors. "

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" When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script. "

" The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. "

" Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times. "

" The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. "

" I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be. "

" Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film. "

" Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. "

" At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really. "

" I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece. "

" Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced. "

" You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. "

" I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions. "

" I grew up on the golden age of children's TV. "

" I like music, but I need to get outside more. "

" I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. "

" If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running. "

" No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. "

" If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience. "

" You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me. "

" I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another. "

" I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it. "

" I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it. "

" I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert. "

" I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another. "

" People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest. "

" I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. "

" It's nice when someone knows their lines. "

" You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with. "