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What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.
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Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.
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I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.
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I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.
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I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.
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At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth, so all the tension from our day is tabled... until the next.
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I've been no stranger to change.
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I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.
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When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.
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I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.
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You can't be different for different's sake, and this doesn't always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it's not truthful, don't waste your time.
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Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.
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I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.
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I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well.
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There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.
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I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.
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Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
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It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.
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I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.
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I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.
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I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.
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You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.
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That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.
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In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.