The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for? |
The first thing that went through my mind was I was concerned for her, hoping that she was OK and that she and her baby were OK, |
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. |
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. |
The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing. |
The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there. |
The screenplay was the first thing that attracted me [to the film], I just thought it was such a well written story. It had a lot of twists and turns that I didn't expect. I was really impressed with it. |
The secret code is Tim, ... He's just an amazing guy and filmmaker. He's just so pure and unrelenting and not capable of compromise in terms of his vision. I don't know, we have such a strange language. |
the teachers, the soundtrack and the proper motivation for my life. |
The wardrobe guy [of Blow] was a genius. He was so tapped into that period and he brought me the ugliest things I'd ever seen and then they were somehow beautiful. |
The Warner people came to see [Burton] in London, ... [They] said, 'Let's talk about cast.' And Tim was like, 'Uh, yeah. Let's um talk about cast...so maybe?' And they were like, 'What about Johnny?' And Tim was like, 'Oh, yeah, good.' (Laughs.) The fact they brought it up was pretty astonishing. It surprised him? Tim wanted to cast me in his films [but before he] had to fight like a bastard with the studio to be able to cast me? |
There a sort of connection that is just here, |
There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. |
There are moments — behavior — in 'East of Eden' that are pure magic, ... 'Giant' is pure magic; 'Rebel' is a bit dated and is sort of a strange vision of the 1950s, but his work in that was amazing. |
There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be. |