 Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me. |
| I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing. |
| With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system. |
| 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. |
| I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is. |
| It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent. |
| It doesn't matter to me what the genre is. |
| They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. |
| I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. |
| My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom. |
| I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue. |
| 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. |
| When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control. |
| It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting. |
| I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way. |
| Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters. |
| My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre. |
