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" My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom. "

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" I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years. "

" I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once. "

" To me, it doesn't really matter how big the part is as long as the part is important to the story. "

" I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting. "

" All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film. "

" The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor. "

" It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good. "

" It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting. "

" The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances. "

" When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed. "

" I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.' "

" I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously. "

" It's not like I'm looking for things that I can direct that I can also act in, but when it's right, I feel like the actor side of me wants to have that opportunity. "

" I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him. "

" Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we're not used to doing, because it was all in the details of if you don't make one move seem natural, it can give away all of it. "

" It doesn't matter to me what the genre is. "

" I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York. "

" When I was doing stand-up, I was about twenty, and I really think that that's a little too young. I didn't have a whole lot of life experience to draw on. "

" I think it's important to create an atmosphere where actors feel like they can try things out. It doesn't mean that I'll take every suggestion, but I want there to be some room for actors to grow. "

" I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue. "

" I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way. "

" Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. "

" By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had. "

" I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. "

" It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent. "

" I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path. "

" My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig. "

" There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor. "

" I'm always looking for other interesting films to either act in or direct. "