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I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.

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Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.

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I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

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I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

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If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

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Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

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I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

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I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.

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I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

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Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

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I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

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Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

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It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

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I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

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I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.

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The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

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My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

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I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

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I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.

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But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.

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