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" I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. "

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

" I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up. "

" Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it. "

" Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. "

" 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. "

" There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there. "

" I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. "

" 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. "

" I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another. "

" I'm a New Yorker, you know. "

" 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? "

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

" I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school. "

" You can't control everything that comes to you. "

" 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. "

" Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family. "

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" Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times. "

" It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing. "

" I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do. "

" 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'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. "

" The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. "

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

" I just like working with smart people. "

" If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack. "

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

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

" I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass. "