A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay. |
A talented writer can write women, men, dogs, pigs. They can write old people, young people. Does a writer have to be insane to write the part of someone insane? I know he has to be insane to want to be a writer, but that isn't the point. |
America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts. |
As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventually completely leave the nest. My boys are definitely starting to do that. Soon I might actually go on a date. |
At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within. |
Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails. |
Cassavetes would have been pleased with me. Truffaut, too, I think. |
Change is good. And in fact unavoidable. |
Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth. |
Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children. |
Dancing. my favorite social event. |
Dialogue is my forte. Whether that is because I am an actor or merely talented in that regard I have no idea. Nor do I care. When I write, I always feel like I am just taking dictation-following the characters around and writing down what they say. |
Festivals today are driven by female perspective. My film is about heterosexual men over 40. And it was very much alone. |
Films are about emotions. They are, for the most part and certainly in today's mainstream film world, NOT about ideas. Not thought-provoking. They are all about EMOTION. FEELINGS. |
Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely. |