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

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" When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life. "

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

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

" I think we all have light and dark inside us. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies. "

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

" 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. "

" In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. "

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

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

" There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. "

" The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus. "

" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "

" I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it. "

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

" Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it. "

" When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself. "

" In my teens, I fell in love with the movies. "

" You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for. "

" So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in. "

" 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. "

" Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things. "

" Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you. "

" 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. "

" I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important. "

" I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy. "

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

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