[(Entertainment Weekly) -- Anyone who has seen the attention-grabbing trailer for] A History of Violence, ... Aragorn: No More Mister Nice Guy. |
A History Of Violence |
Any ordeal that you can survive as a human
being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life. |
I definitely need to sleep more. But as they say, you can sleep when you're dead. |
I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're with people, talking all the time. Whether it's on the phone, or in person, they're never by themselves. Whereas I could be alone for months |
I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile. |
I mean, I've been around a long time compared to a lot of other actors. I mean, I've been working on and off for 20 odd years. |
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way. |
I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't. |
I've been told that I've arrived many times over the years so I take it with a grain of salt. It's a relatively new situation obviously, but if it all went up in smoke tomorrow, I wouldn't really care that much. There are a lot of things that interest me. As for my fortunes, it's really a crap shoot. |
If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run. |
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.' |
It brought up real emotion, real fear, a fear of not knowing what exists in me. |
It comes down to the fact that you supply the blue, and they supply the other colors and mix them with your blue, and maybe there's some blue left in the painting and maybe there isn't. Maybe there wasn't supposed to be any there in the first place. So have some fun and make a good blue and walk away. |
It's a simple narrative on the surface, ... The setting, certainly. And there are certain things that remind one of genre imagery that you've seen before, whether it's action movies or crime movies or Westerns. There are a lot of elements that look familiar. But it's kind of like the family itself. Everything that looks normal, in the end, isn't really. And like a lot of David's movies, at the end you say, 'Well, is anyone really normal?' |