I don`t smoke and I don`t want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn`t be avoided. It should be faced.
If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I`m gonna have a heart attack
Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
I`ve never felt any particular encroachment of the `celebrity` stuff into my life.
It`s a nice position to be in; I`m lucky.
At the same time, all the excitement of that has been put into stark
perspective ... In some ways, the highs of it have been blunted, which
in a way, is a gift.
People wrestle sometimes making movies,
and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of
very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
"Nobody makes me uncomfortable here. It`s a
place where you can be eternally anonymous." - the reason he loves
living in New York City
He has such a rich mellifluous voice.
Anytime I would hear him speak, it would remind me of how flat my voice
is. (about Ralph Fiennes)
I`m not interested in making movies for
everybody. I like making movies for myself and my friends and people
with my sensibility.
In fact, the United States today keeps on
making the same sort of mistakes. We force those methods we think are
useful on a few countries, hoping to make a few changes.
I always felt that acting was an escape,
like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any
realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
I`m an actor and, each time out, I`m
trying to convince the audience that I`m this character. Every little
thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to
achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when
an audience goes with an actor and character (he`s) playing.
Acting? It`s a longstanding compulsion
I`ve had since I was about five or six years old. I can literally
identify the moment it struck me. I went to see a play (If I Were a Princess) in which a babysitter of mine (Betsy True, who later acted on Broadway) was performing. I was completely shell-shocked by the magic of this little community-theater play; it just riveted me.
I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It`s
just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San
Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what
John Steinbeck saw?
If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I`m gonna have a heart attack.
Just because you`ve made a couple movies,
you`ve done some good movies, you`ve been nominated for some Academy
Awards, whatever, nobody`s entitled. It`s a business. If they don`t see
it, I can think they`re wrong, but I`m not entitled to a $15 million
budget to make a film.
First of all, you never make all things
for all people and can`t always pander to the broadest denominator. I
keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me?
Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is
provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me
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