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That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.
So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
I don't want to lie, play games, hurt somebody, or get hurt. You can only go forward in one direction.
I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.
I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.
I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.
Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.
I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.
I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.
I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.
Bukowski said, "I know I'm good, so I like that people think I'm bad, because it gives me a dimension, effortlessly."
There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.
I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.
Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.
I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.
We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to.
Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.
I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.
I think if you want good things to happen for a country like Haiti, then you need to provide the circumstances where the Haitians can do that.
Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.
Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.
There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.
The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.
I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution.
Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.
'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head.
I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.
If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.
Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
I have a regret that the entire discussion [with El Chapo]... ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy in the War on Drugs.
I don't see myself as a different guy than I was ten years ago. I don't have aspirations to be. It's really about where you're putting your energies. That's changing a lot.
I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.
Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was.
When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.
When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.
What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.
There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.
I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.
On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper to my cameraman, I like to whisper to my actors, and whoever else I've gotten to whisper to.