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The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.
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It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.
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I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.
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Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.
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If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.
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For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.
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What I look for is identifying what the utility of a character is to the telling of the story overall. If I can identify that from reading the script, then I've got a clear idea of whether or not I think the character is worth playing.
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Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.
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In relationships with a directors I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.
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It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.
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I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package.
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I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it.
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I don't mind playing older characters. I find it interesting. There are parts I couldn't have got when I was 30 years old. So, it continues to interest me in the same way that it always did.
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I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.
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That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story.
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It doesn't matter to me whether I go back to outer space or not. The job's the same and I don't have any sort of genre preferences. I'm looking for a good story and a good character, whether earthbound or not.
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An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.
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I came across the script 42, and I read it, and I said, "I really want to do this." And when I had my agent call, they said, ah, you know, it's not what they're looking for. So, OK. And then I let it go for a while, and then it just kept gnawing at me, so I kept pushing.
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My work has always been important to me. The reason I continue to do it is because it's so much fun for me. I love my work and so that's what keeps me in the game.
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My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.