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" J. J. Abrams is amazing. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment. "

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

" In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that. "

" 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 think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them. "

Surround Yourself

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

" I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen. "

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

" 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. "

" What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was. "

" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "

" I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher. "

" I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar. "

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

" All of my high school issues are resolved! "

" Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino. "

" 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. "

" People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel. "

" A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.' "

" 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. "