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" The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things. "

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" If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone. "

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" The only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing. "

" A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.' "

" The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative. "

" There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors. "

" Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process. "

" The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal. "

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" My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail. "

" Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them. "

" Ummm... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not. "

" While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors. "

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" Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something. "

" When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them. "

" I think some of the best actors ever were little kids. "

" Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb! "

" The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world. "

" It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with. "

" I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist. "

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" I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young. "

" Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment. "

" To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light. "

" Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy. "

" There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images. "