I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job. |
I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe. |
I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight. |
I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary. |
If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me. |
A lot of films come out before they're finished. |
You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else. |
One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself. |
It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience. |
You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting. |
I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time. |
There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case. |
If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later. |
I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing. |
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me. |
I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things. |
For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done. |
When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now. |
You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting. |
I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days. |