"I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film."
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"One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score."
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"I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped."
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"I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing."
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"I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled."
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"I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness."
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"I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point."
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"I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense."
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"I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it."
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"When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them."
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"Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially."
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"I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more."
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