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Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.
When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.
My image of Jesus is someone who is exciting...Were he alive today, he would be causing havoc!
[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.
No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.
Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing.
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.
Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.
It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.
There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?
I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.
I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.
I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.
If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.
I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.
I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.
Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.
I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.
Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.
People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.
Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.
I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.
When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.
I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.
I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.
I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.
When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.
My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.
If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.
I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.
I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.
I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.
Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.