I think the director, John Huston, took on the picture because he's been trying to outdo his father, Walter Huston, and that's impossible. How do you cope with a genius? I couldn't communicate with my own father. |
I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films. |
I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish. |
I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That's where the filmmakers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they should have stayed. |
If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind. |
If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong. |
It rained so hard and so quickly that the drainage system wasn't able to get rid of it as it normally does. |
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer. |
It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater. |
It's going to put the cat among the pigeons, and that's not a bad thing, it seems to me. |
maybe what we today would call a nerd or a geek. |
My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her. |
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure. |
My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel... . |
Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course. |