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"I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me."
"Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form."
"I could be the driver - the Uber guy saying, "I used to be in films years ago... .""
"You have to go with your instincts."
"That's why I don't rehearse a lot and why I shoot a lot immediately. I have ideas of where I'd like to take the character, but we both end up going together."
"Nobody wants to make something that displeases people, but once you make a film, that's out of your control and you can't think about that. You just have to follow your head and make sure that you're satisfied by putting down what you intended."
"When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You’ve just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like Morgan says, it’s a pat on the back, so great you’ll take it and then move on."
"I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way."
"Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?"
"If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle."
"I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words."
"As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself."
"Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt."
"Scott's Eastwood movie Snowden sounds fascinating. I want to see it because it's about deserting your country ... for whatever reasons you have. Edward Snowden became famous for the wrong reasons, as Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger became famous for doing something spectacular."
"People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races."
"I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go."
"I keep working because I learn something new all the time."
"At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms? At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain. Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms? What kind of mentality does that?"
"I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea."
"You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it."