I don’t have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.
It’s funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I’ve got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.
I’ve gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.
I think we’re all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.
I want to have all of my faculties.
As far as 3-D goes, I don’t know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.
Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain’t no king, man.
The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.
I look back at my filmography, and I’m pretty jazzed with the stuff I’ve been part of. They’re all movies I’d like to see.
Hope’s interesting, isn’t it? I can’t turn hope off, it’s hopeless.
It’s like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you’re not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.
Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there’s a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.
I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.
So I have this word for much of what I do in life: ‘plorking.’ I’m not playing and I’m not working, I’m plorking.
Execution is everything.
I’m kind of an idea guy.
I’m very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we’re all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it’s because I’ve played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.
Nowadays it seems more and more like the ‘business’ in ‘show business’ is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it’s all part of getting people in to see the movies.
Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you’re going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don’t pay you for.