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I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.

Documentaries DVD Extra Footage
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.

Actor Anything Approach Because
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!

Act Again Almost Easy
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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

Actor Movies Seriously Set
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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

August Messanger Actor Misery
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Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

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When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

Matter Wrap Premiere Movie
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Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

Movie Weeks Next Tour
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It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.

Friendly Face Great Bad
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I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

Movie Marine Cop Absolutely
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When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Shooting Paid Set Worth
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I am known for comedy, so I want to produce a psychological thriller, something challenging.

Comedy Produce Thriller Known
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

Dress Funny Clothes Bow
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A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

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That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time

Able Cousins Dance Dancers
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Film Never Good Really
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

Cinema Boundary Ribbon Dreams
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If a film is good, it will work no matter what.

Film Good Matter Will
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After doing films like 'Krrish,' 'Bang Bang,' and 'Mohenjo Daro,' 'Kaabil' is one film where you can't lie at all. You can't be a hero. You have to be real. You have to be yourself. So that was a challenge.

After Bang Challenge Doing
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I have played a mentally challenged person, a quadriplegic - but blind, I realised, is the most difficult because eyes are the most involuntary muscles in our body. Like, our pupils and their dilations are involuntary.

Because Blind Body Challenged
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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

Action Camera Character Director
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

Find First First Things Go
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

Back Because Every Faith
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It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

Arm Blood Cinema Cut
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Because History Like Loved
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

Anything Could Directed Everything
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I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.

Begging Believe Bit Get
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In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

Different Film Person Than
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

Boring Character Male Pretty
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I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

Actor Bunch Despise Entails
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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

Act Am Character Goes
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Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

Character Characters Dumb Even
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There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

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Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
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You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

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Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.
Always Biggest Hollywood Plagiarism
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Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

About Actor Insecure Know
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I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

Different Each Know Movies
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I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?

Character Deal Jacket Kid
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The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.

About Acting Always Any
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When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

Being Feels Guy I Think
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The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

Actor Important Important Roles Most
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Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.

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The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

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I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

Doing Hopefully Just Keep
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

Amazing Amazing Thing Ang Lee Lee
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I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

Dark Just Many Movies
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.

Anything Film First Go
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Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.

Better Brothers Get Going
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I've done films over the years that basically no one saw. And I'm thankful that some of them haven't been seen.

Basically Been Done Films
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