"I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles."
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"Yeah, my real name is Coppola. I changed it because they'd think I was some nepotism-oriented kid."
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"Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island."
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"I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies."
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"You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught."
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"Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing."
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"I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that."
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"The only way the devil really exists in my opinion... is in interactions with people who don't walk the walk and talk the talk; people who act one way, or talk one way and then do another. Those are the deals with the devil. I don't see the devil as somebody who is a horned, goateed guy with a fork in his hand that's there to continuously stab me and send my soul to hell. I don't see it that way at all."
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"I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means you have to try a little bit of everything in hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note, expression in the process. I'm not going for grades; I'm going for an education. I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn."
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"I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection."
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"As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity."
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"I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think."
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"Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks."
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"If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point."
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"I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it."
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"I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up."
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"I don't find the same things funny that many other people seem to find funny. I don't really respond to sex jokes and things like that, and some of my friends look at me and go, "Come on, Nic, that was my best joke. Why aren't you laughing?" I go, "I really don't know why I'm not laughing. I'm sort of out of sync with it." So I'd have to find something that was really about weird human behavior for me to laugh."
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"If you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people."
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"I think on some level, all of us have a little bit of belief in the possibility of different energies and forces and things like that. Otherwise, we wouldn't be afraid of them. Or there wouldn't be so many movies about them."
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"I'm always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it's important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field."
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