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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 choose movies that I think will speak to what's important. "

" 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 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. "

" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "

" 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. "

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" I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much. "

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

" 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 think we all have light and dark inside us. "

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

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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