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"How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."
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"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."
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"I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat."
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"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies."
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"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?"
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"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."
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"It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that."
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"If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon."
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"Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice."
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"What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you."
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"I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?"
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"Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger."
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"People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors."
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"Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family."
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"I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano."
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"People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk."
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