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I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.
I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.
Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
That is to say, Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump.
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.
In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.
To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.
People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore.
'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.
Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?
The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.
As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.
'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.
It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."
If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically different from mine.
I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.
You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from a young age.
Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.
If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to watch out."