I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
I've been in more than 20 movies. You just do the best you can and try to make a living.
Money is power and power gives you choice.
After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: 'Enough with the dancing.'
I took a break after 'Confessions.' I was real picky. And then I suddenly realized I hadn't worked in a year. And I was sort of, like, not really happy. I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.
It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.
I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.
I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.
I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view about acting and doesn't seem jaded at all. She seems more like a student and yet she is veteran actor who really brings it.
I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
