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

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" I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it. "

" When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script. "

" 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? "

" 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 have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines. "

" You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with. "

" Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You can't control everything that comes to you. "

" I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility. "

" I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. "

" All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard. "

" It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you. "

" Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively. "

" At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really. "

" The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about. "

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

" It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me. "

" No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. "

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

" I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. "

" 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. "