- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Anytime
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look upon pride as a sin.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
- Deem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think any stereotyping is too much.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.
- Glorious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always happy to have a job.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.
- Clue
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't direct movies for a living.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
- Good Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love cinema.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.
- Good Movies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't analyze things like titles.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't do anything that is not fun. I just don't do it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a hedonist.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made some bad movies. And I really enjoyed it!
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Partnerships are good engines for narrative.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't hurt anybody or try to steal anything, you'll be fine in the South.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys.
- Known
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never really known what glamour is.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no mean calling to bring fun into the afternoons of large numbers of people. That, too, is part of my job, and I'm happy to serve when called on.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.
- Art History
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- Nov 07, 2020