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

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

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" '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. "

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

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

" In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. "

" I am a limousine liberal. "

" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "

" I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much. "

" You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle. "

" Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things. "

" The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that. "

" 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. "

" In my teens, I fell in love with the movies. "

" So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in. "

" What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts. "

" I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling. "

" I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "

" If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game. "

" When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself. "

" Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to. "

" Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. "

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

" I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it. "

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

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

" I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. "

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