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    I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

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    I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

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    I generally like very visually striking films. I love a lot of Stanley Kubrick's films. I would have to say 'Dr. Strangelove', which of course has got resonance in 'Watchmen'. It's a favorite movie of mine.

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    I get criticized for taking roles in films like Ghost Rider 2, but if you look at my résumé, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

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    I get a terminal dissatisfaction on films. If I was bad in one scene, it's impossible to let go. And it can make or break my day. If I drank, I would probably drink a lot.

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    I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.

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    I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

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    I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

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    I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.

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    I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

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    I got my first part in Silent Fall, 1994 - I guess I was 15 or 16 - which was really outrageous because I still knew nothing. I don't think I really learned how to land on my marks until after Empire Records in 1995, 'cause sometimes I'll see a shot in that film, and I'm like "Whoa, I just walked over to the corner.

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    I got lot to do at a pretty young age in terms of emotionally challenging films. I did not do any fluff... fluff is not me.

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    I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.

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    I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.

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    I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.

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    I go to the movies. I absolutely love film.

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    I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

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    I got used to [ Lars Von Trier] doing the narration for 'Dogville' and 'Manderley.' And I said to him I do these narrations for you but you never put me in a film! So he called my bluff and put me in 'Melancholia' and I was thrilled about that.

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    I grew up doing plays - I went to a stage school after school - and it's always something that I've wanted to do, but, in a weird way, if you do television and film and you didn't go to drama school and don't have a theatrical background, it's hard to get your foot in the door. In the same way that it is for theater actors to get into television and film. There's a weird prejudice that goes both ways.

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    I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

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    I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

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    I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

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    I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.

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    I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.

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    I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

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    I guess anyone would be nervous to give your life over to someone to make a film about it.

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    I guess I'm growing up in the film world.

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    I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.

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    I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.

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    I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

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    I guess Titanic because it made the most money. No, I`m kidding. I don`t really have a favorite. Maybe Terminator because that was the film that was the first one back when I was essentially a truck driver.

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    I grew up watching a lot of Egyptian movies. My parents had this huge VHS collection of every Egyptian movie you can possibly imagine, and Egypt was kind of the Hollywood of the Middle East back in the '40s, '50s, and '60s. That was my first education in film.

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    I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.

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    I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

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    I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

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    I had always been affected by films, as well, of course - and great films.

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    I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

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    I had a really regular progression--and this is really pleasant, I think--because I had small parts in TV movies, then bigger parts in TV movies, and then small parts in films. And I think this allows you to get...experience of the set and to get familiar with [the process]. And as I had a really slow progression, I think it really helped me to stay lucid and not get carried away.

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    I had experience with PTSD myself; probably that's why I felt so close to the soldiers and the testimony. Also, because I had experienced this myself, I wanted to make a really physical and carnal film.

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    I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.

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    I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

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    I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.

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    I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

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    I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries.

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    I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.

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    I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.

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    I had never met Woody Allen before Melinda and Melinda. My agent knew the producer of the movie and he suggested that we would work well together and then we did. We had a great time on that film.

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    I had grown up working in a video store, and I'd grown up more with film than I had with theater, so I kind of felt a natural call.

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    I had never met an actress or an actor when I thought that I might like to be one. I had never been around people in show business or from the theater or from movies or anything. And I say that as an encouragement, I don't know some people who want to be doing what I'm doing or be involved in film. You don't have to be from it to get interested and get involved. I certainly wasn't.

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    I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

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