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Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.
When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.
In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.
Because I'm such a studio guy, I really trust my process. I really believe in myself in the studio.
With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.
When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'
Something like 'A Single Man,' it was tiny; it was financed by one guy. We all lost money doing it.
The roles that I always get attracted to are roles where the material is based on an actual person.
A little backflip (backflips), but it's not part of Parkour, but i like doing this since i did gym.
With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.
I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.
If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.
Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.
I fell in love with the possibilities of telling the story in the future, and married that quickly.
You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.
An Oscar clears the deck of envy and resentment. You think, 'Well, I've got that. I can relax now.'
When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.
We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.
I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.
Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.
I think my favorite movie is 'Joe Versus the Volcano' - or maybe 'Multiple Maniacs' by John Waters.
You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.
Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.
I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.
I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.
Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.
Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.
Listen - in life, if you can go into work and spend the day with Halle Berry, you're doing alright.
It's pointless to go against digital because sooner or later you won't be able to do anything else.
I have no agenda at all. I just want to do stuff I like. It can cost $200 million or $200 thousand.
I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't drink coffee. Starbucks is not going to make any money on me.
'Dance India Dance' is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.
Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!
I make more than a handsome living doing voices for commercials; I hear myself all day on the tube.
I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.
I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.
It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.
There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.
When I'm not working, I like to be comfortable. I do like to dress smart, but comfort is important.
You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.
We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.
I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.