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I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.
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People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
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Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.
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I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.
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The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.
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I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
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But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.
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I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.
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My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.
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My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.
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I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.
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Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.
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I am rich enough.
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With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.
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I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.
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There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.
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Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!
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Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.
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I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.
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I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.
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The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.
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You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.
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Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.
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I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
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