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" 'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head. "

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" I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one. "

" I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much. "

" I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times. "

" There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that. "

" I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors. "

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" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "

" Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. "

" Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it. "

" Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to. "

" Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger. "

" I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. "

" Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that. "

" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "

" I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that. "

" In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. "

" I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with. "

" I'm not a breakfast eater. "

" What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts. "

" At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch. "

" Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. "

" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "

" My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple. "

" Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing. "

" There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies. "

" You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle. "

" When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate. "

" A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them. "

" I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments. "

" There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort. "

" We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. "