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.
I think I’ve been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.
Every time I feel that I really hit critical mass and I’m in the right place is when I feel like the director and I become a third thing, and that’s the character.
I remember when people said, “Man, that’s a powerful scene in the movie!” and I was like, “We just shot this thing before lunch, I don’t know, he tears a log apart, I said some words”.
I never know when the seeds are being laid, I’m just like, “Wow, that’s a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?”
I wouldn’t want to see anything irreparable happen, but I also like it when seemingly irreparable thing occur and men and women find a way to move past it.
It’s become this really odd thing where even some of the folks who build the things that we wear for entertainment are contacted by DARPA-esque companies who are saying, “Yeah, we’re really doing that, and we want to talk to you.”
I thought that the grounded-ish nature of the first Iron Man and where I think the success of it was based was I think people got excited that this was a technologically possible occurrence; and didn’t Obama order an Iron Man?
Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn’t turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.
I’ve always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don’t know.