When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.
I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.
Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.
The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.
I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.
The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.
When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
Any other iron on you?” he asked impatiently. “Just my tongue stud. ” His look was a mixture of curiosity and horror. “I’m kidding, you idiot. Let’s go.
I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.
I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.