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'Birdman' is basically 'All About Eve' - the 1950 comedy about rehearsal rivalries in a Broadway show, and another Best Picture laureate - reimagined as a Batman suicide mission. The movie couldn't be actor-ier.

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you.

I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you.

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you. The experience was so good.

I started developing 'The Revenant' before 'Birdman.'

I know I don't own Big Bird, but I own his soul, I feel.

If I didn't do 'Batman,' 'Birdman' wouldn't have happened.

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.

My heart is like a singing bird.