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"At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore."
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"Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops."

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

"I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for."

"I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor."

"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."
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"Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood."


"Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them."


"The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically."


"Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around."


"My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye."


"I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds."


"There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to."


"A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making."


"A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing."
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