When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.
My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.
I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.
As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.
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