If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there’s no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let’s go.
Like most kids, you don’t want to do what your folks want you to do. You’ve got your own thing.
I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I’ve done, and I say, ‘God, that’s a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.’ It’s a paradox, I suppose, being both things.
You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible – the Zen thing – to let the deal come out of that nothing.
Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I’m a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I’d done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.
I don’t have too much time to jam with the rest of Hollywood.
I don’t really think in career terms.
Like most of the movies I get involved with, I resisted as long as possible, I really try to figure out why I shouldn’t do it and this one had plenty of reasons “not to do it”.
Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness.
When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.
During my early years, I thought I might be a musician. Like most kids, I didn’t do what my parents wanted me to do. They were gung-ho that all their kids become actors. They loved showbiz so much. I am a product of nepotism, basically.
All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.
One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they’re voting on hunger issues.
Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.
A lot of people don’t really understand what rehearsal’s about. People are afraid they’re gonna leave it in the dressing room, or you’re gonna shoot your wad in rehearsal.
Whenever you’re the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
I’ve never been motivated by the award thing. There’s a certain thing that this fame thing does that makes my job harder, in a way. I’m still working with that. I don’t think about it too much until somebody asks me a question, and then I think about it.
Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.
I’ve worked with a lot of kids, and when you’re working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.