I never had any master plan about directing, and I don’t really write.
There’s a certain type of character that you can’t help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.
I don’t blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That’s all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.
It’s always fun to get to do independent film because I believe that that’s the life blood of film. It’s about writers and directors who truly have their own vision, and that’s hard.
Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we’re not used to doing, because it was all in the details of if you don’t make one move seem natural it can give away all of it.
I hope I don’t make it sound like it’s this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.
I can’t relate to 99% of humanity.
I have a dresser, who literally is a guy who makes sure the tie is right. It’s a little bit of a process. I could probably do it by myself, but it would take me three times as long.
I guess I don’t think about age too much. I’ve always felt older than I really am anyway. I’m not dreading getting older and I don’t miss the anxiety of being younger.
Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don’t make it to the end of the movie because I’m disposed of.
The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.
It doesn’t matter to me what the genre is.
By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.
I like character-driven stuff. It doesn’t matter, the size of the part.
I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.
I’m terrible at story and structure, but I’m not so bad at writing dialogue.
I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.
When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.
I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn’t one of them. In the end, I couldn’t figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.
I’ve had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, ‘You know, I won’t work again if you fix my teeth,’
They’re not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.