I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.
I realized that work doesnt beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.
Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesnt? But famous-famous? I just dont care about it. And if you genuinely dont give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.
I guess I just would never be so arrogant as to think that anybody would even recognize me. I didn't even think about it.
Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.
I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much more of a musical approach: You learn a melody, and then you sing it, I suppose, or you find a rhythm or a cadence that works for the material. And then it's sort of about hitting that note correctly and finding those beats.
To spend 36 hours or 48 hours of my life binge-watching something seems insane to me.
Characters for me are born on page one and they die on page 100.
Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.
Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.
I actually was doing ghostwriting jobs since I was 17 years old, so I've been supporting myself off and on with writing jobs for almost 10 years. But those were all things that I did off the books. And now I do a lot more writing on the books.
It's so enjoyable to play a bad guy, you know.
I think I was always interested in darker characters just because there was a lot more to do.
I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.
Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.
Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.
Movies that I remember working on, or things that I remember working on, are things that took years of struggle and strife to get them off the ground or get them in front of the public. You don't have that kind of strife or whatever with a television show. It has an automatic platform. You go in, you do your job, and then it goes on air, and that's that.
I look pretty different. Luckily for me, I don't get harassed or anything like that.
I'm not really often recognized - not really. Or if I am, nobody cares enough to come and tell me that they recognize me.
I did all sorts of cartoons and stuff. And every once in a while I still do. It's rare, but it happens.
