Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that. |
People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm. |
Plus, I had never played that guy before, but I knew him intimately. You live in the West long enough, you meet those guys everywhere. Times have changed, and they don't like it a bit. Some go with the flow, some don't, and this guy doesn't. |
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Talk is not enough. It has to go to action and that is where we are right now. |
That's too bad, I was working so hard, |
The business has changed, ... The business is what it is; it's a business. Therefore, it's hard to do the films like 'An Unfinished Life' that are more humanistic. I've always been selective, and usually like to do my own things. But as that narrows down, it becomes more and more difficult. But I love it. My love is performing and directing. |
The film is very, very different from the normal kind of films that are coming out right now. |
The stuff that came to us wasn't any good, ... (They said) can you do a sequel to 'The Sting?' No, leave that one alone ... don't try to milk it. |
There's going to be a lot of films in there that people are just not going to like at all. That's part of the deal. I don't think it's changed. What has changed is now, instead of 350 people there, as it was the first year, there's 40,000, 45,000. |
This is a movie that might change a lot of perceptions about Jennifer, too, and the little girl who plays her daughter (Becca Gardner) is really terrific. |
This is different in the sense that it allows an audience to reflect as it moves. It does have the kind of flow of a river flowing. |
This was made before 'Million Dollar Baby'... but this was put on the shelf for so long. |