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

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" I'm a New Yorker, you know. "

" I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw? "

" The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it. "

" I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school. "

" My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s. "

" I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films. "

" Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful. "

" I don't get much out of doing a red carpet. "

" People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies. "

" When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. "

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

" Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity. "

" 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. "

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

" If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack. "

" There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there. "

" I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through. "

" Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways. "

" A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience. "

" I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass. "

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

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