I’ll never be able to really see a film that I’m in.
I was watching ‘Wild at Heart,’ and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!
All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what’s next and where things are going. If you’re not asking those questions, you’re not growing.
I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.
It’s too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.
Celebrity is okay as long as you know it’s not about you.
Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies.
The truth is, if you’re around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it’s best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.
I think on some level, you do your best things when you’re a little off-balance, a little scared. You’ve got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.
I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
I don’t worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to just inhabit the character in a full way, where I can create a personal stake.
I don’t think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I’m a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.
A lot of critics are lazy. They don’t want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they’ve seen before.
I’m an optimist. I hope if a movie’s good that it will be a success, but as we know, that’s not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns – there’s lots of reasons.
Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That’s why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.
Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.
The director’s very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.
The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.