Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.
I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.
I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.
When I was doing stand-up, I was about twenty, and I really think that that's a little too young. I didn't have a whole lot of life experience to draw on.
My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.
In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.
I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.
I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.
My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.
The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.
It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.
Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.
Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.
It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.
I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
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.
