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Depression is not interesting to watch.
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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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My life has been about big changes.
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I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy … I'm not. I'm boring... At least by party standards.
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In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.
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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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It might be a very human thing across the board, but we, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.
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I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
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I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.
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I always knew I was going somewhere - going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there.
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It's those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it's a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.
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I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.
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I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.
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I just don't like the separatism that comes from religion, and, without fail, the need to put your beliefs on someone else. When you start telling someone else how to live, you should check yourself, man.
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I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.
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America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.
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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
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'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.
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We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.
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The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time.
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I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.
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I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud.
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I've always paid attention to religion … because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them - other than goat sacrificing.
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If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife.