I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do.
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
There are a lot of times when people are diplomatic about things, and I'm not that type. I'm not afraid to say exactly what I mean.
As for restaurants, I'd say I'm always down for Wendy's. A little fry dipping in a Frosty - that's a good deal.
I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.
My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!
I can say that I've become a David Fincher disciple. I have been completely turned.
I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.'
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.
I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.
Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'
It would be disingenuous to say I don't have some sensitivity to the seamy side of issues.
I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it. But I would be disingenuous if I didn't say that my intention is poetry.
I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.
You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer.
