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I think that the best movies are made, not from a point of view that depends on your personal history, whether it's the color of your skin or the politics that you had or the place that you come from, but from a point of view of an understanding of human nature, an understanding of history, and an understanding of what motivates people.
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The capacity to create visual effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that you can with a few more keystrokes generate such a busy canvas that the eye doesn't know where to go. You lose human scale on an event and you're just wowed by the kinetics and the visualization. But, often in those cases I feel you lose touch with the human characters and what it is that they would feel and how they might feel, and that's still the most important part.
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You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.
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Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life.
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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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The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.
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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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There are a lot of different paths through the jungle, but...the simplest thing you can do is make yourself useful. Be easy to work with, be a hard worker and help people get the job done. And do it with as much passion and quality as you can.
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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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For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.
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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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I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.
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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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Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.
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You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.
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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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I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it.
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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.
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Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.
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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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An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.
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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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If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.