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Most Films And Directors Lose Their Nerve And Want To Indicate [emotions] A Bit More, To Show That Their Story Is Clear. I'm Not Saying That's A Good Thing; As An Actor Its Anathema To Good Acting, But To Have Someone With The Confidence To Say That Should I Be Utterly Natural And Minimalist Is Great.

Maybe If We Sit Out For The Next Few Years And Let Clint Eastwood Get A Little Experience, He's Going To Be A Good Director.

Being Known As A Writer Did Change The Relationships I Had With Directors. The Rap On Actors Is That They Always Want To Inflate Their Parts. But When Directors Know You Write Screenplays And Have A Different View Of Things, You Really Get Invited Into The Huddle In A Much Fuller Way. And Those Collaborations End In Friendships.

I Need To Know If She [sarah Palin] Thinks Dinosaurs Were Here Four Thousand Years Ago... Because She's Going To Have The Nuclear Code.

I Usually Play Characters That Are A Lot Different Than Me. I Mean, I'm Never In A Fight In A Movie And If I'm In Them, I'm Usually Losing.