Jack Dylan Grazer didn't think I was cool, i was like 40 and into all these skateboards. I was like,' I know about skateboarding, too ! ... I grew up around all these pro-skateboarders, like,' I know those guys ! I'm pretty cool !' He was like,' No. That's not cool.'.

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Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.

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A lot of my world-view is formed by the places Ive been.

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Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, Im very fortunate.

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I still wrestle with the catharsis of acting. I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that I don't always feel good.

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In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

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I'm such a hater, and will hate on anything.

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I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

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That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.

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Only you know what you're trying to accomplish. Any time you're thinking about whether someone's going to like this or not like this, you're f**ked. You've made the decision based in fear. Fear is the cancer to creativity.

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Any new country I go, I realize the less I know, and the luckier I feel.

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I'm not going to say I'm really streetwise, but I might be more than most people.

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I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the masculinity.

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I probably don't make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I'm one of the few middle class actors out there. The microcosm of Hollywood reflects the macrocosm of international finance.

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I'm friends with a lot of Brits, and they tell me when they're over here what a huge phenomenon 'The Wire' has become. Some things just attain critical mass after they're already dead and buried, and I don't know why it was the case with 'The Wire'.

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Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

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There used to be a period of time when you'd shoot big studio movies where you would shoot a couple of pages a day. For a TV show, you've gotta shoot seven to nine. The schedules are much more compressed.

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Mars would seem, to me, to be the best place to focus our collective effort as a species... I think people would like to experience something sort of hopeful in terms of where we go next... as a species.

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My father was a Vietnam vet, and he was Green Beret.

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Idris Elba saved my butt in a point in my career that he can do whatever he wants, and I will back his decision no matter what. He got me one of my first pretty big studio gigs, and we had never worked together... It was a time in my life where I really needed it. So whatever Idris wants to do, I'm down with.

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I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that, I don't always feel good. I get a lot more catharsis from taking pictures or painting or making short films.

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