"My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor."

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"My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor."

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"I'm a historian in my own mind."

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"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."

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"It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back."

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"I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue."

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