Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
In all of our society but especially in Hollywood there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug the non-action oriented sci-fi.
My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.
I don't know what has happened to movies but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic – a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters.
If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.
If I do three movies in a year I don't feel like acting ever again.
Right now if you're interested in being a dramatic actor they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.
It's difficult to do a genre film well and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be they get the throwback of it.
I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.
I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm… where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles they have chores 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.
We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.
I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.