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

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" 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. "

" I really love to make movies. "

" My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple. "

" 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. "

" Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "

" I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema. "

" Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. "

" 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. "

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