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" Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. "

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" Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you. "

" There is no re-inventing the wheel. "

" I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them. "

" I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies. "

" When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life. "

" I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors. "

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" A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them. "

" I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. "

" Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times. "

" At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch. "

" I think we all have light and dark inside us. "

" That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. "

" It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama. "

" I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that. "

" 'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head. "

" Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. "

" Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that. "

" Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it. "

" I think life's an irrational obsession. "

" Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it. "

" I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema. "

" Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it. "

" There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. "

" On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think. "

" When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate. "

" I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns. "

" I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies. "

" My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple. "