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“I like theater; I just don't really like actors.”
“There used to be a period of time when you'd shoot big studio movies where you would shoot a couple of pages a day. For a TV show, you've gotta shoot seven to nine. The schedules are much more compressed.”
“I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that, I don't always feel good. I get a lot more catharsis from taking pictures or painting or making short films.”
“A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.”
“There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.”
“The characters I play always seem eerily appropriate to where I am in my personal life at the time, and if they're not, there always tends to be this notion that I should be learning something to apply to my own life from these people.”
“Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.”
“Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.”
“Sometimes actresses are just insane.”
“The scariest movies, to me, are like Michael Haneke's 'Amour.'”
“Any new country I go, I realize the less I know, and the luckier I feel.”
“Corporate greed in New York won. It suffocated anything interesting out of the city.”
“Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate.”