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" The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made. "

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" 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? "

" 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. "

" I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more. "

" I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up. "

" I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. "

" Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it. "

" The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. "

" I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another. "

" I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece. "

" It's nice when someone knows their lines. "

" 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. "

" You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. "

" 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. "

" I don't get much out of doing a red carpet. "

" I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. "

" 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. "

" If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack. "

" I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it. "

" I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do. "

" Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it. "

" 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. "

" If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running. "

" People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies. "

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" I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another. "

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

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

" I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions. "