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I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.

The only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing.

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

Movies are different from real life.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

I'm tired of being tired of being tired of being.

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.

This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard.
It makes me so happy.

I want to keep working with people that care about what they're doing. It seems obvious, but it's not. It's sometimes hard to keep on that track.

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.

I lost you
when you left me
to find yourself.

When you become a ghost
feel free to haunt me.

We're all beautiful. We all deserve attention.

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

The media's about to become a lot more effective.

The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

Okay, I'll admit, I have a few skeletons in my closet; but they weren't skeletons when I put them there.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

I find the voice is what I look for first and foremost with just about every character I play.

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

I tend to think having an impact on the world is a lot more complicated than government.

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!
Ok one more ... But then you have to read to me!

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O.

Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

If you look at all the movies that have made tons of money, almost all of them are great movies. Even Titanic. I think Titanic is a great movie.

Life and Death took a break,
weary from their burdensome role.
Nobody lived or died that day.

Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.

He though of all the
different ways to make it
look like an accident.

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.

I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

We could have been the greatest love story ever told.
If only you'd stayed in character.

I'm the last person to tell my friends to go see something I'm in. I could care less if friends of mine never saw anything I'm in.

As my story came to a
close I realized that I was
the villain all along.

Real life is not as simple as it is on a screen. I think real life is actually a lot more beautiful.

A man touched me: his hand ... my thigh. I touched him too: my fist ... his jaw.

I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a lot of professional work before.

The universe is not made up of atoms; it's made up of tiny stories.

Stranger than strangers
are lovers estranged.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects.

My favorite kinds of movies are the ones that start a conversation.

I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.

I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.

Ummm ... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not.

One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working.

If I were to point to the person who's having the greatest impact ... I'd point to Elon Musk.

Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

And in the morning
they shook their pillows
violently, hoping
all the dreams they lost
that night would tumble out.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting.

Monuments make momentous men immortal, but more memorable are mortal men making mere moments monumental.

Blessed are they that crumble; from them new worlds are made.

The poets pinned tragedies
to their chests like ribbons.

Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple.

There were memories in that melody.

That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'

If the inspiration is genuine and it's coming from the right place, that's what I like and want to be a part of.

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

You have reached the edge of the world.
Please stand behind the barrier and take no photo.

I stood and watched
the final sunset as the
world was ending
light that once would fall
was now ascending

Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.

I collect flickering stars
in old pickling jars,
poking holes in the lids
so they can breathe.

She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.

I have a really terrible sense of direction.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

Well, look who I ran into," crowed Coincidence. "Please," flirted Fate, "this was meant to be.

I didn't really like doing commercials.

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.

After you died I realized that
I never really like hunting.
I just like hanging out with you.

I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

I enjoy a challenge or provocation, something to think about, to talk about after it's done.

It's just a natural part of being a social creature and being a human being.

Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.

She read his letter again &
again 'til she found herself
afloat among the stars.

When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus.

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.

My personal belief is that everything is always happening all at once.

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

And when the day is done
I will follow you into the sun.

That you can be whatever you want to be, whoever you want to be, regardless of your gender.

The right shoe left, knowing that the left shoe was right.