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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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 love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them. "

" In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. "

" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "

" Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I think life's an irrational obsession. "

" 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. "

" There's not a lot of good movies being made. "

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

" Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to. "

" If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game. "