I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad thing. The key is being true to what you participate with and who.
Getting trapped back in the ’80s, it’s almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.
There’s also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.
Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.
All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.
Do I listen to pop music because I’m miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don’t trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.
The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn’t become a tall person until I was 16.
I think everything has some politics to it. It’s just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don’t even know what that means any more.
Well, any time you do anything good, it’s man versus himself, right? That’s the art, the challenge.
Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it’s helpful. So the fact that there won’t be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that’d be helpful.
If people are constantly reading about you, and you’re overexposed, they’ve got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it’s not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.
I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don’t always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.
Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories – you’re kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don’t you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.
If you wanna give me an award, I’ll take it. Just don’t make me go to the party afterwards.
I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called ‘The Imp of the Perverse’ about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.
I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with ‘A Christmas Carol’ and you’re getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.