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" It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. "

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" We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition. "

" We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual. "

" I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all. "

" Everybody's family has problems. "

" My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls. "

" In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year. "

" I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long. "

" My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool. "

" Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C. "

" I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. "

" I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training! "

" 'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for. "

" I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place. "

" Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust. "

" I have a very well organized closet. "

" Well, I don't know what image people have of me. "

" I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills. "

" Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting. "

" Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find. "

" The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies. "

" Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box. "

" I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans. "

" There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling. "

" I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched. "

" I've never felt like my career has been on fire. "

" The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think. "

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" Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too. "