- I’m an actor and, each time out, I’m trying to convince the audience that I’m this character. Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character [he’s] playing.
- The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
- It’s a nice position to be in; I’m lucky. At the same time, all the excitement of that has been put into stark perspective … In some ways, the highs of it have been blunted, which in a way, is a gift.
- First of all, you never make all things for all people and can’t always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.
- People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
- I’m not interested in making movies for everybody. I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.
- I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
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