[Devito, with the help of director Quentin Tarantino, persuaded the actor to make this one.] He couldn't convince me at first because I wasn't familiar with the book, and then he had Quentin call me, ... There were a lot of parts of the book that needed to be in the script, and when they corrected that and added them, I said yes. |
[In addition to] A Civil Action, ... The Thin Red Line. |
And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him. |
Come fly with me, come fly, come fly away ... |
Does he ... does he like me? |
Every move he makes is a selling shot. I was overwhelmed. |
Gilmore Girls. |
He and Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift — the three of them — represented a new age in acting. Acting entered a kind of realism [in the mid-'50s] that was exploring depth of emotion for males, and a reality that was more accurate. |
He lives with his creativity in high gear. |
I called my son Jett and I wanted to call my daughter Qantas but my wife wouldn't let me. |
I could never get a script right, ... Cut to years later and I have this comeback, and I'm too old to play Jonnie, and it's time to play the villain. |
I felt marvelous about that because she's equally wanting to see others thrive because that's real love. You know real love, if you boil down to the bottom line is: the desire to see someone survive and thrive. |
I grew up with these kind of men. |
I have my Qantas wings, I'm very proud of that, |
I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on. |