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"Hopefully as a result of 'The Frozen Ground,' more and more people will be aware of the horrible things that happen to ladies all over the world and give them respect. This movie is a love letter to those victims."
"Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract."
"Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene."
"God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction."
"The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes."
"I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck."
"I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch."
"I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you’re really going about it the wrong way."
"I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me."
"I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me."
"I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene."
"Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold."
"I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting."
"The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from."
"Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small."
"If I do do a sequel, I'm going to have to know for sure that the script is better than the original. So I'm going to be very careful about that because I'm not eager to repeat myself."
"In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too."
"All of my characters have a glint of madness."
"I came out of independent film, that's my roots."
"Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me."