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"The ego survives only in conflict. Peace is the death of the ego."

"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it."
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"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."
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"I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining."

"The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has."

"Not everything is about you.In fact, most things aren't.What a relief, right?"

"No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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"I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason."

"It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth."

"Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?"

"Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller."

"I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?"

"Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected."

"I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is."

"As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments."

"If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!"

"Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies."
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