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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

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I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

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And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.

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For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

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There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

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If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

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If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

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The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

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Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

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I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

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I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

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I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.

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I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

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So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

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Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

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I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

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Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.

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Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

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First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

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