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" 'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other. "

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" I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice. "

" I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that. "

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

" Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly. "

" 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. "

" When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in. "

" I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player. "

" I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool. "

" I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?' "

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

" I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it. "

" I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary. "

" I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people. "

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

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

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

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

" I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return. "

" My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason. "

" 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. "

" Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now. "

" My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans. "

" I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view. "

" Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro. "