I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while
I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.
I never, ever wanted to be an actor.
I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me
If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.
I like to think that even with some of the more intense ones sometimes there is humour in there, you try to make a complete human being, whether the guy is good or bad.
I've done a few movies where I really liked the project, but I wasn't sure about the director, and I still did it and my instinct was right, in the beginning. Even though it was a good story, the guy still didn't really know what he was doing.
I think drug movies free the director to make intense films
I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.
In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare
You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
I do certain things that, maybe, nobody else knows why I'm doing. But it's all - it all has to do with - to grow as an actor.
The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.
You know, I started out really hot out of the box. Then I've definitely had and up-and-down career. And when things started cooling off again, it frustrated me.
There are a lot of actors who will watch the monitors. They'll do a scene, and then the director will look back to see if he got whatever he wanted. I just find it odd to sit there and watch yourself. But if you can be objective, I can see how it's really useful as a tool, especially if you're doing something physical.
I think people like watching edgy things.
With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you're not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you're not in the framework of the script, you're just making everything easier so it fits you. It's much more interesting and challenging to go to it, rather than it coming to you.
I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company
So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.
I just know what it's like being an East Coast person, being from New Jersey.
It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.
