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" The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is. "

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" I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play. "

" Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. "

" I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. "

" I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors. "

" They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. "

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" It's not like I'm looking for things that I can direct that I can also act in, but when it's right, I feel like the actor side of me wants to have that opportunity. "

" My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig. "

" By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had. "

" Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days. "

" It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting. "

" To me, score is really important. I would rather not have any score if it's something that's going to detract from the film. So often when I watch films, the score is what really bothers me. "

" I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years. "

" I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part. "

" I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York. "

" Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me. "

" I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him. "

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" I think it's important to create an atmosphere where actors feel like they can try things out. It doesn't mean that I'll take every suggestion, but I want there to be some room for actors to grow. "

" I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write. "

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" I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path. "

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" To me, it doesn't really matter how big the part is as long as the part is important to the story. "

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" In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene. "