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" You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting. "

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" I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job. "

" Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about. "

" Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it. "

" You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke. "

" I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days. "

" In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase. "

" I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing. "

" There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out. "

" I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork. "

" I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary. "

" It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience. "

" There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case. "

" If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later. "

" When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of. "

" I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things. "

" You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else. "

" If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me. "

" If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years. "

" I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical. "

" I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time. "

" I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing. "

" One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself. "

" I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for? "

" I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make. "

" I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight. "

" When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now. "

" Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me. "

" You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting. "

" I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing. "

" I like to act with people that know what they're doing. "