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" It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that. "

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" I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else. "

" If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out. "

" I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York. "

" I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role. "

" I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part. "

" I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music. "

" If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves. "

" A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated. "

" I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college. "

" Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things. "

" Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves. "

" I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush. "

" I like the idea of the comedy of resilience. "

" I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?' "

" I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return. "

" I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home. "

" There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are. "

" I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief. "

" I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot. "

" I don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don't do that. I don't go looking for stuff that I'm interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie's about. It's so much more fun to be surprised. "

" I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy. "

" I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie. "

" My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason. "

" You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there. "

" Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid. "

" 'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other. "

" It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way. "

" My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen. "

" I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool. "