When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.
Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that’s why we’re all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it’s actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.
Can a heart break, once it’s stopped beating?
For some of us, Halloween is everyday.
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.
Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.
People told me I couldn’t kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.