In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.

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The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

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If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.

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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

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It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.

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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

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If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

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As Aragorn said at Helm's Deep, "There is always hope."

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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

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You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.

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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.

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The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.

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There might be people out there who wouldn't hire me because they thought I should keep my mouth shut, but I'm not aware of that. Even if I saw evidence of that, it wouldn't really concern me.

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I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

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The Black Lives Matter movement, the various Occupy movements in Spain and the rest of Europe, in this country, and elsewhere serve as an example of what can be done, and how strong the voices for positive change and truly democratic progress can be.

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Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

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One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.

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