Dylan McDermott Quotes - Page 2

I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.

It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now.

We shared the same vision.

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!'

Dark Blue is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.

I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.

Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you’re waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.

Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language; some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan’s work. Like Andy, Ryan’s finger is so on the pulse of culture that he’s ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.