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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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