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I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you are an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.

Look, at the same time that I do not want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I do be a baby and a fool to be like, Why are there cameras taking pictures of me? when I am on a billboard for a movie. I think that is a very absurd concept.

I am really proud of Moneyball. To me, it is about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I am an old man I will be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That is all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

I love it, man I am 23 years old and I am lucky enough to write movies as a job! I just feel really blessed and can not believe it is happening.

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I will just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?

I like movies about failing.

Movies are an expensive business.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

I cast unusual people in my movies.

I have always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you are as good as the movie you are in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they are dreck, it is nothing.

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I have never worked on a movie, including my own, that did not take advantage of a rehearsal process.

I have done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies did not take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it did not take off.

My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called New Faces of 1937. My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they are sort of larger than life and I think I am still suffering from that reaction.

I am just happy to be a film where for once I do not have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it is true.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I do not understand why.