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I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important.

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Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to.

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I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.

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'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head.

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A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them.

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The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

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I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema.

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I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.

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I am a Justin Timberlake fan.

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I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: August 17th, 1960

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