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" Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C. "

Greg Kinnear

Goals

Blind

Opportunity

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Advice

" When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace. "

" We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual. "

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Own

People

" The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think. "

" Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find. "

" I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long. "

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" There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting. "

" I like complicated characters. "

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Characters

Complicated

" I've never felt like my career has been on fire. "

Greg Kinnear

Felt

Never

" There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling. "

" Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.' "

" My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool. "

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" Well, I don't know what image people have of me. "

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Know

Well

" There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.' But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing 'Talk Soup' and 'Later' at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize. "

" Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust. "

" If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it. "

" I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept. "

" I like the classics! "

Greg Kinnear

Classics

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" I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills. "

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