Having fun is a very particular skill. And not everyone has that skill.
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
It's always refreshing to step into another time.
I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.
As an actor, you hope to obtain this mind meld and sometimes I feel like I'm chasing a horse holding on to its tail and getting dragged, and other times I feel much more velcroed into the saddle. And I'm not the knower of which is better or best as a process, it's just as random as the weather in terms of what my subjective experience is.
For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.
The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.
I think auditions are set up for failure because they're not really the set experience. There's no time to develop the character. You're just looking at someone. . . if someone's really good in an audition, sometimes they're not good in the film. It's something you learn when you're doing short films. It's the same way that some people do well at taking tests and some people don't. But when you're on a long-term filmmaking process it's a completely different feeling.