Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it.

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If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the...

If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the...

I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests....

I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests....

Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if...

Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if...

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what...

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what...

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that...

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that...

You're dumber than you think I think you are.

You're dumber than you think I think you are.

You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going...

You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going...

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented...

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented...

It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built...

It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built...

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me...

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me...

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there...

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there...

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very...

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very...

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the...

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the...

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving...

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving...