If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.
There’s this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.
Actors, writers, directors – that triumvirate of creativity – we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.
Something’s happened in our society which I don’t think is beneficial, and that’s that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station – I’ve been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.
I’m not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child.
Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you’re not healthy. You can’t appreciate it.
What’s great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That’s basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.
There are far more talented people doing voice work than I.
Actors are inherently self-centered.
The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.
Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.
I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can’t. It’s against the law of nature.
Every time you start a project, you’re hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.
Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous – so why not show that in our programmes?
I don’t have spare time.
Mixing humor and politics is something that works.
I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There’s a craziness to them.
I’m a big fan of ‘Mad Men.’
It’s mind-altering when you slip into someone else’s shoes. That’s psychedelic, man.
I’m telling you, until I shaved my head, I never realized how much heat is lost through the top of the head. I walk out in winter and it feels like I have an ice pack on my head. Unbelievable.