What’s “God”? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God’s the guy that ignores you.
Really interesting things come because you don’t know what the rules are, what you can and can’t do.
I don’t tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don’t fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.
I usually get freaked out if I’m in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.
Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he’s created here on earth?
Just because people want to eat the burger doesn’t mean they want to meet the cow.
It doesn’t matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.
I don’t think I’m that much different from any other working actor that’s trying to make a living.
Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It’s not like I’m the lead in everything I do – far from it. I’m not spending three or four months on a picture; I’m spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.
Communication is the key, and it’s one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.
Nothing’s really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can’t really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.
I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it’s something I feel comfortable with.
Oftentimes you’ll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.
I’ve never had a grand plan. I’ve only just tried to keep open to many different possibilities, have fun and work with people who are passionate about what they do.
I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that’s better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities.
I never had any master plan about directing, and I don’t really write.
I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
All the roles I play, I don’t see any of my roles in films that they’re typically leading men.
It wasn’t until my senior year in high school that I started acting.