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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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" 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. "

" I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted. "

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

" I've never had a grand plan. I've only just tried to keep open to many different possibilities, have fun and work with people who are passionate about what they do. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way. "

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

" I'm not so in a rush to direct just anything because I'm lucky that I can make a living so far as an actor and not have to worry about that as a director. And so I can be a little more choosy in things I direct. "

" Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters. "

" All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film. "

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

" The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances. "

" It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good. "

" 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. "

" I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life. "

" I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. "

" Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low. "

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" When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed. "

" 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. "

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" I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin. "

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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. "