You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment – and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.
I’m legally unable to ride motorcycles. It’s a contract that I have with my life insurance, so whenever I get a chance to do a movie and ride a bike I go for it.
Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.
I’m always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn’t go away.
I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.
I just try to keep it fresh. I try to keep it interesting. The truth is my roots are independently spirited dramas that are small, and I will always go back to that well, because that’s where I broke out of. But I’m going to keep doing as many different movies as I possibly can.
I love it all. I don’t want to go through my career with one hand tied behind my back. I love making kids happy. I love the midnight audience. I like intense dramas. And I like high-adrenaline action films.
The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look forward to sharing them with their parents, a ritual if you will, where they get to spend time together and the kids are smiling.
I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.
If you get a chance, whenever you’re traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don’t buy your comics online ’cause those guys are going to go extinct, in a minute here, and we want to be able to have those experiences with our kids.
I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There’s nothing wrong with that.
I’m a seeker. I’m very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect.
I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody’s faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be – Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism.
I was thinking about being more global in my work, which means trying more foreign countries and working with foreign filmmakers, hoping they would give me a new take on my work, a new point of view, reinvent me in some way.
I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.
Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks.
I find it inspiring and I always think when I’m working on something new, whether it’s a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.
I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.
Killing me won’t bring back your goddamn honey!
Halloween is a great holiday for any actor if you think about it. It’s all about dress-up and playing characters. So yeah, it’s always had a special place for me.