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I don't think I was particula...

I don't think I was particularly in need of superheroes. I never had any fascination with Superman or Spider-Man or a Batman kind of character. If it happened at all, it was imagined characters that I had invented. My dad was a role model for me. He was a fascinating man. There was intrigue and entertainment growing up with him. He gave me an edict that I still pursue: “Life should never be boring."

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The art of survival is a stor...

The art of survival is a story that never ends.

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My dad was the biggest influen...

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

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One of the places where we liv...

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

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I met my grandfather just befo...

I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

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Art is something to be proud o...

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

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How serious can a movie about ...

How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.

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Look, I've got incredible prid...

Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

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I'm an actor I'm not a politic...

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

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I always leave that for other ...

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

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The only thing I would unequiv...

The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible.

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There was a great complexity t...

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

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I don't get it when you get so...

I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.

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Were all conning ourselves, on...

Were all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.

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The blue collar milieu was som...

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

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It helps so much being on loca...

It helps so much being on location. It's like the difference between performing for the rectangle of the camera versus a world being created and then the camera finds things within that. There's a huge difference in that, because what it takes away is performance. You don't feel like performing. You're just kind of doing it. You're existing.

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It's very easy to leave when t...

It's very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American.

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After the modest success of my...

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

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I chose to tell a personal sto...

I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, 'If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?'

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I think it's important when yo...

I think it's important when you're acting to be as relaxed as possible even if you're doing something intense. You're basically in a state of dynamic relaxation.

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