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

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

" I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth. "

" I think life's an irrational obsession. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is no re-inventing the wheel. "

" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "

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

" 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. "

" What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts. "

" I'm not a breakfast eater. "

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

" Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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