"Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would."

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“A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.”
“I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.”
“The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.”
“I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.”

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“Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.”
“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”
“I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.”
“Specialists can never practice their specialties too much. The danger is in not practicing enough. Make that mistake, and soon you may not be in the specialty business anymore.”

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