That's about all I can tell, or they'll put me in jail. |
That's always what I heard about people dealing with Capote, |
That's what attracted me to it. I wasn't interested in doing it if it was just going to be about trying to portray Truman Capote and if I could be successful or not. It really was about the inevitability of a tragedy unfolding. |
That's why the film works so well. You really have this sense that he's the one who committed the crime, and I think deep down inside, that's how he felt, too. That's something he could never come to terms with. |
The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do. |
The guy was exhausting, ... Because every scene was different. He played every angle. He sat there, listening, but all the time thinking of what each person needed to make them open up. So there was never just one way to play each scene. |
The last thing I wanted to do was mimic him. I wanted to get his essence. It was the hardest thing I ever did on film. |
The movie is about knowing that somebody has lost his soul out there, somebody has destroyed a part of himself. ... The minute he saw Perry Smith, the outcome was inevitable that two men would die -- one literally and the other figuratively. |
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool. |
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool. |
The screenplay was set up to tell a very true, simple, subtle, heart-wrenching tragedy, ... I knew that I had to be as human as possible, that it could never be clichéd - it could never be mimicry. I feared all of those things. I was in terror a good week or two into the shoot. |
The size of my head though is pretty abnormal. |
The voice came right away, |
There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem. |
There isn't, like, one formula, ... Everybody has their own way to go about it. Everybody is ultimately looking for that something that will spark their imagination, what will propel them forward with some passion to make the part work. |