If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves. — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there. — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly. — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get.… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war,… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile,… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me that wasn't… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share
I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share
It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that. — Oscar Isaac Copy Share
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… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share
The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share
That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro. — Oscar Isaac Copy Share
The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line. — Oscar Isaac Copy Share
I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share
