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" Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times. "

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" 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 think life's an irrational obsession. "

" 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. "

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

" I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies. "

" I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. "

" 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 don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns. "

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

" 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. "

" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "

" There is no re-inventing the wheel. "

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

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