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There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.
Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.
When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.
I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.
I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.
Gavin O'Connor, I'd walk into a fire for that guy. He's a brilliant filmmaker and a passionate man.
There's something nice about making a night of the theater rather than sitting in front of your TV.
People love boxing, but you've gotta wait two or three years for your favorite boxer to have a fight.
I'm not saying I'm a family guy, but maybe that's what people see in me: some kind of paternal quality.
I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.
Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.
Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?
There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.
Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.
The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.
The little bit of buzz around 'Warrior' led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out.
I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.
I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.
The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.
I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.
To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.
I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.
Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?
I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.
Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.
I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.
I think the great thing about religion is it's there to teach us the good path and that we're all equal, that we should be treated as such.
To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.
A lot of the fighters will say you'll know if a fighter's won or lost just by a fighter's eyes - whether they're scared of the other person.
I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.
I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.
The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.
I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I'm not good at saying 'No'. But the juggling's fun.
It's an incredibly liberating feeling to have a skirt on. In fact, I know you can buy skirts, and you can buy work kilts and all sorts of stuff.
Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.
I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.
Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre.
I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.
I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.
The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.
I just love good movies. And not every movie you're going to end up in is always going to turn out right, but at least walk into it with the right intention.
That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.
I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.
Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.
I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.