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Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.

You have to have an ego to be an actor, but you need an ego just to get through life! Unless you want to sit on a corner and suck your thumb, it takes a healthy ego to get up in the morning and say, 'I deserve to be here.'

Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.