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" You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with. "

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" I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw? "

" Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. "

" Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful. "

" I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it. "

" I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines. "

" I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions. "

" I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. "

" It's a dream to be in a company of actors. "

" When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. "

" I just like working with smart people. "

" I don't get much out of doing a red carpet. "

" When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script. "

" My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s. "

" Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film. "

" I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. "

" Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity. "

" The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. "

" Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced. "

" I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more. "

" If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience. "

" Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways. "

" The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today. "

" Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not. "

" I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films. "

" People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest. "

" All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard. "

" I like music, but I need to get outside more. "

" It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you. "

" Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing. "