"I would love to try action films."
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"You get to know a character that you play on-stage in a pretty profound way over a length of time. I don't want to sound highfalutin and say you become the character, you just start bringing more and more of yourself to the part until the character and actor, it's hard to tell them apart. It's some weird amalgam. In film, because of the period of time, I don't know that you ever get that deep into it."
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"I take every film as it comes."
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"I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream."
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"Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same"
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"I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films."
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"I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd love to do more of them, but the writing and historical stuff I'll probably always do."
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"I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films."
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"Generally I just pick music that I like. That's the part I really enjoy: When I get permission for the songs I want and put them into the scenes. It's always hard when you're doing a low-budget film, so it's great when you can get all the music you want to get."
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"You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are."
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"This film [Chi-Raq]is a declaration. It's a scream. It's a warning. And I can really break it down to one scene. That's the scene where we have the eulogy and sermon that is given by the great John Cusack."
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"'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors."
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"I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films."
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"I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm only comfortable working on low-budget, small films. That's not the case at all."
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"By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody."
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"I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film."
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"It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded."
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"I'm not someone who gives prescriptives at the end of my films."
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"I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still what I am doing. The end."
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"Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite."
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