Greg Kinnear

Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him?

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

I have a very well organized closet.

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.