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"Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see."
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"I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that."

"I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing."

"I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise."

"It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars."

"All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor."

"I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job."

"I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that."
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