I’m coming from a place of total strength and humility now.
Worrying is like praying for something you don’t want to happen. I have such an overwhelming sense that if you’re in the right state of heart, the next right thing appears to you.
And last but not least.
Does any new parent, even if you’re not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?
You can’t go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal.
I’m not used to feeling like I belong where I am.
I didn’t have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.
Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.
It’s a very smart and heartfelt movie and that’s why, I think, we’re all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.
The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.
I guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic.
I’m not used to studios being ecstatic about we did and saying, “Please go do that again.”
I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.
I’m not 40 yet. I wouldn’t even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.
I loved it, it’s such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.
With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it’s going to translate easily.
I know if you talk faster and use more ten-dollar words than everyone around you, you convince half of them that they should shut up because you know what you’re talking about.
But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can’t forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn’t work.
I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It’s convenient to imagine that there’s a few people controlling everything, that way it’s manageable and small. But that’s not life, life is messy.
I’ve always just shown up and tried to figure out what’s for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.