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. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
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. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
How do you play ‘righteous’? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don’t really play a quality. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
You watch ‘Whale Rider,’ and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
It’d be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he’s not talented. I don’t think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don’t allow the audience to see themselves. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you’ve kind of figured it out. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
Drive’ is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don’t get really sophisticated genre films. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
I think for some reason we’re conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that’s not a necessary. Oscar Isaac Read Quote