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" The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence. "

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" If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out. "

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" I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people. "

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Smile

Saying

" I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else. "

" Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later. "

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Situation

Eye

" I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?' "

" I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi. "

" It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that. "

" 'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films. "

" I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie. "

" 'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other. "

" I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music. "

" In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection. "

" My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans. "

" There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck. "

" I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part. "

" Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation. "

" I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino. "

Oscar Isaac

Guess

Al Pacino

" I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy. "

Oscar Isaac

Idea

Enjoy

" For me, with a character, you start with the shoes. "

" Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things. "

Oscar Isaac

Way

Morality

" The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation. "

" Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years. "

" I don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don't do that. I don't go looking for stuff that I'm interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie's about. It's so much more fun to be surprised. "

" The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment. "

" When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind. "

" I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice. "

Oscar Isaac

Kind

Voice

" My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff. "

" I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen. "

" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "

" You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there. "