"You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen."
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"I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself."
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"I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience."
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"One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits."
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"If you have people that totally support you and have your back, I feel like you have all the confidence in the world, and you believe that you can do things that most people can't achieve. I feel that's really important."
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"I love it all. I don't want to go through my career with one hand tied behind my back. I love making kids happy. I love the midnight audience. I like intense dramas. And I like high-adrenaline action films."
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"I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not."
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"It's always exciting when you can go into a mode where you can be both spontaneous and choreographed. Sort of in control and out of control at the same time."
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"Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride."
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"I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist."
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"I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual."
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"My best takes are my first two takes."
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"I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing."
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"I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country."
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"I think I jump around more when I'm alone."
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"Everything we do impacts someone else's life."
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"Nobody wants to watch perfection."
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"Well, Amber [Heard] is still raising her eyebrow at me because I said that I've been 180 miles per hour on the 405 freeway on a motorcycle and she doesn't believe me but it's a true story. I did it coming home from work at 3 in the morning on another movie I made about cars called Gone in 60 Seconds. 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 needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola."
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"I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it."
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