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"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

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"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."

"For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English."

"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."

"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"

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"Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly."

"We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that."

"I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on."

"I've always loved film more than theater."

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"I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films."

"Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about."

"I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit."

"I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket."