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I tend to lose my performance energy the longer things go on for, so I'm always best on the very first take.
It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
Even I run after money, but money is secondary for me. First comes the script and then my part in the movie.
The audience is sacrosanct for me. They put faith in me, trust me and I will try my best to live up to that.
There's a lot of jobs that you can do that you can be miserable at. Making movies should not be one of them.
I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.
My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit.
The amount of work you need to do to become a very successful celebrity is something I'm not prepared to do.
I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce.
If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.
If there's an interesting role that comes up as a great support role in a decent picture, then I'll do that.
Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.
I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.
I didn't grow up jumping in front of the class and performing, but I definitely had a hunger to be creative.
I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.
I used to love wildlife as a kid and being outside in the garden and the woods and the field and that stuff.
I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.
You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.
Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.
I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.
Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not.
I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.
What is important for me is that people are liking my movies, I am liking my work, for which I am very happy.
My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.
I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.
I think my voice would be great as a protestor but also it would be, and has been, very powerful for charity.
One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.
I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.
My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.
I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.
You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are
I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.
Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.
Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.
As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.
It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there.
I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
I can't take 'The Room' and show it to an agent and say, 'Hey man, cast me in something.' It's an alien film.
Some day, I'm in a horror movie, and some days I'm in, like, a sweet, independent feature about relationship.
I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.
I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.
People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.
If you have a MacBook Pro, there is no option to block people. Believe me: I hunted for this blocking option.
A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.