- Actor | January 5, 1980 -
People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
Oscar Isaac
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
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I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
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I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy.
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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J. J. Abrams is amazing.
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The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.
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In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
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