My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don’t even notice it any more. It’s just my reality.
I have had so many bad auditions.
I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend’s house and staying up late and watching ‘Nosferatu.’ Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.
It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don’t know if it’s just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.
I’d be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I’ve made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.
Right now the only people I can really fall in love with are people who don’t really, truly want me around. Now why do I do that?
In New York, you’ve got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they’re all on the same subway car.
If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.
If I do three movies in a year, I don’t feel like acting ever again.
The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that’s so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.
The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that’s not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.
I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.
If you don’t risk doing something foolish, you’ll never do anything special.
Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he’s doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.
Right now, if you’re interested in being a dramatic actor, they’re not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.
All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.
But the truth is, I’ve never wanted to be a movie star – and I’ve been pretty clear about that.
I love working on scripts. I love coming up with ideas about what people would dress like or talk like. I love all that.
A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You’re always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.