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" If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped. "

" When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it. "

" Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box. "

" I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability. "

" I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists. "

" I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor. "

" I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that. "

" People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage. "

" I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing. "

" Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off. "

" I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.' "

" I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving. "

" Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are. "

" I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories. "

" I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'. "

" The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story. "

" It felt to me like America was always wanting to resolve things too quickly, without thinking through what the costs and consequences would be and how that affects an individual living in that world. Then as I grew up and went about my life, I think I just got more and more interested in that gray area where things are not so easily quantified. "

" I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me. "

" I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way. I can't help how I look or how I seem to people. "

" What I would like to do is a thriller. I've been wanting to do that for a long time, but one that was not at all dependent on special effects. Just purely psychological, but will scare the hell out of you. That's what I would like to do. I have not found it yet. "

" I haven't seen 'The Revenant,' but I'm sure it was great because it has a lot of talent involved. "

" Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it. "

" I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going. "

" I think that people should be paying a lot more attention to other issues, rather than who's the top 10 this or... who's the sexiest or the most beautiful. "

" I've always liked speed. I own a car that I shouldn't be talking about because I'm an environmentalist, but the 1955 Porsche Spyder 550 RS is the finest sports car ever made. "

" Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on. "

" I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive. "

" Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door. "

" Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve. "