Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.
Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.
The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they’re very intelligent.
Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you’ve known them for a long time.
No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.
You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that’s your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don’t know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I’ve definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.
If I’m in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don’t recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.
Acting can be pretty challenging. I can’t say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn’t be acting like Don Juan.
A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it’s a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.
The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you’re putting yourself out there all the time, you’re not holding anything back.
It’s something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else’s poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you’re too awkward to do it.
It’s like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they’re, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.
But, you know, I’m sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don’t want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.
The film is not a success until it makes money. It’s only good when there’s a dollar figure attached to the box office.
New York’s like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it’s like a Fellini movie or something.
My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I’m ahead or behind the curve, that’s for others to decide.
I’ve seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they’re talking about.
I was never interested in being an overly public person.
I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal’s stuff.