"It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me."
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"I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.“
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"I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse."
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"I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean."
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"I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies."
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"I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize."
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"The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince."
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