Luca Changretta's not someone you want to be at odds with. It's a fantastic opportunity for me, and he's a fascinating character.
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
I've been painting and drawing fish since I was very young. My mom found old pictures I did when I was around 6 or 7 of all these sharks and scuba diver looking back, a big ship, throwing a harpoon. There was already a message within what I saw.
The odd thing is how, I think, the intensity and devotion to my craft and the intensity of certain performances or types of roles I've played overshadow the comedic stints that I've had. 'Darjeeling Limited' is a comedy; The 'Brothers Bloom' is a comedy.
All commitments require sacrifice and hardship.
I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone.
Being anonymous is a great luxury. It's a big loss to lose that. Mostly, the loss is the ability to observe others without being observed yourself. And as an actor, that is your key tool.
Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.
It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.
Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.
I grew up around New York, graffiti culture.
I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.
I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.
I love the accessibility that my great nation affords us, but it is virtually inescapable for most people in America, and many places abroad, to rely on inexpensive yet unhealthy meals as a main source of sustenance.
Even if you can't afford to buy a painting, you can experience it. You can go see the Mona Lisa and be transported. You can see the discipline and suffering in a van Gogh.
You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children they have or what their father's nickname might be; you don't have references and databases and rumors and half-truths - you're just transported by their storytelling.
Some roles require less, and some roles require a great deal of commitment.
I grew up in Queens in N.Y., and in parts of my neighbourhood, there were a lot of Italian Americans and a lot of people who were either affiliated with nefarious people or had seen so many movies that they were embodying that.
