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"I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies."
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"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."

"So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies."

"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."

"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."

"Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets."

"When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way."
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"I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented."


"Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president."


"That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled."


"Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first."
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