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" 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. "

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" The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence. "

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Existence

" I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in. "

" Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us. "

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

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" 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. "

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Morality

" You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't. "

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

" 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 grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi. "

" The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people. "

" When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind. "

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

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

" I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.' "

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

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Idea

Enjoy

" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "

" I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently. "

" I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is. "

" The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark. "

" 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'm so bored by business and money. "

" Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation. "

" J. J. Abrams is amazing. "

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Amazing

" 'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films. "

" 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. "

" Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it. "

" I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that. "

" With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly. "

" Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve. "

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