“I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for ...” — Oscar Isaac Quote

“I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.”

“If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.”

“I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.”

“There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.”

“I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.”

“'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.”

“I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while.”

“It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.”

“As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant, and keep your judgments to yourself.”

“Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.”

“I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.”

“I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.”