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" There is no re-inventing the wheel. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 am a limousine liberal. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it. "

" I'm not a breakfast eater. "

" 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. "

" I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth. "

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

" 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. "

" The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that. "

" I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "

" It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" I think you start to prepare the minute you read something. "

" That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. "

" The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. "

" Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was. "

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

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

" 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. "