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I'm a New Yorker, you know.
I just like working with smart people.
It's nice when someone knows their lines.
I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.
I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.
You can't control everything that comes to you.
No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.
I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.
Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.
Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.
Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.
Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.
As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.
My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.
Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.
I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.
Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.
Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.
At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.
A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.
It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.
It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.
I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.
I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.
I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.
Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.
I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.
I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.
I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.
The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.
The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.
I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
You can do things in twin scenes now you couldn't before. You can implement actual moving cameras.
Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.
I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.
Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.
The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.