People who make a living playing poker and in that world, it's not quite as sexy as it sounds. |
Right before The Bourne Identity came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year. |
Some people get afraid to lose it, ... They get something and they try and protect it like a beachhead. ’God! Don’t take it away form me.’ And so they start making really safe choices and I don’t want that. If I go down I’m going down swinging. |
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. |
That definitely helps. I think things can get magnified exponentially when you have two celebrities in a situation. Suddenly the interest it's not just like twice the interest, it's four, eight times depending on the celebrity. |
The fact that Terry was directing the movie sold it to me, |
The first time I went to meet Terry, I said, 'Why isn't Johnny Depp doing this movie?' |
The Mickey Mouse Club. |
The movie is really a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales. It's also an excuse for Terry to create an entire world, which is what he does so well. He has his wide-angle lenses and extravagant production design. His frames are so densely packed with information. He directs like no one else. |
The real Brothers Grimm were scholars; they were these amazing heroes in Germany who discovered this folklore and shone a light on it, and made Germans proud of their heritage, |
The show was really good this year and yet we had horrible, horrible ratings, ... When we were in conversation with Bravo, they were like, 'Look, the show is good,' we got the best reviews of any show on television, and they said, 'But there's a certain number,' and they showed us the number and I'm not a TV guy, but they said, 'Look, this number, no matter what, we can't bring the show back. ... This is just terrible, we can't justify keeping it on air.' |
There is stuff that I do where I am just, like, 'Oh man, this is brutal and why did I do that and why did I make that choice and what am I doing?' ... This time I just -- I don't know, it just seemed pretty honest when I saw it. |
These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging. |
They had to do it quickly and quietly to avoid all the media nonsense. It really is a shame that it's come to the point where celebrities have to sneak around to get married. |
They were really influential guys -- they unearthed all of these stories and collected them and wrote them down and suddenly everyone got very proud of their heritage; and then there's our movie, |