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Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

I knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and had a great time doing it.

Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.

You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

I like music, but I need to get outside more.

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

It's a dream to be in a company of actors.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

The Zionist Tulsa Jew who's pugnacious is a reality. I grew up around it. And I think it's really, really funny and surprising and unlikely.

I'm a New Yorker, you know.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.

I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.

I just like working with smart people.

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.

Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson].

You can't control everything that comes to you.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

I just love movies.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.

You can do things in twin scenes now you couldn't before. You can implement actual moving cameras.

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to be agreed upon.