 I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent. |
| So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane. |
| In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare. |
| Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later. |
| The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a '70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn't anticipate the ending. |
| As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles. |
| Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads. |
| Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing. |
| I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while. |
| You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them. |
| Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing. |
| I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad. |
| When I found out Cusack was involved, I liked that a lot. |
| I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth. |
| I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me. |
| You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick. |
| I think people like watching edgy things. |
| You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole. |
| The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow. |
| When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part. |
