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Quotes
 I've
learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you
really love to do, no matter what it is.
A
lot of love stories, when they come to the end, they end. We kind of
pick up the storyline, and I figure that's what makes it interesting.
For
me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale... but an interesting
one. I don't know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but
I certainly know people who have stuck it out.
Freedom
is such a gift.
Hollywood
usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid,
so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.
I
did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel
scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall
all the way.
I
don't feel like I would be a good mentor. I don't know what I have to
offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.
I
don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being
entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for
entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real
level, then I think I would do it.
I
don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an
actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can.
If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me
do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.
I
feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define
you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you
shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.
I
feel like everything has happened naturally.
I
have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about
stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in
the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.
I
just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just
trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an
opportunity to.
I
just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if
he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a
character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is
faith.
I
like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious
reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to
the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so
different, and they never explain them to you.
I
think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of
suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can
control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control
it.
I
think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately.
I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for
things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always
like it is in the movies.
I
think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.
I
think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things,
and movies don't reflect that.
I
tried to find something real in essentially something that's science
fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.
I
try not to discriminate against genres.
I
try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like
this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that
if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put
against me.
I
wanted to play a character that had clarity and knew what they wanted; I
felt the distilled difference between myself and the character.
I
worked building furniture for the film that was really used. I worked
with a man named Walter Smith, and we worked together for like two
months.
I'm
glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression
elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to
benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other
people look at the world.
If
I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's
about as romantic as I can think of.
If
you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the
kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but
they were there for doing something terrible.
It
was more important to me to understand what it's like to be this Jewish
kid who felt he was so different at such a young age. I feel the story
is about a kid who came to hate through love, so I felt I had to learn
why he loved this thing so much that he also apparently hated it.
You
know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair.
I
always wanted to entertain. When I was 6, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd
get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was
muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.
You
know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you
win, you get 10 minutes and go in and take anything you want from the
store? That's basically what I'm doing. I'm running in and just trying
to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.
It's
nice to be around people that have a sense of the world around them,
that are, in general, more conscious and conscientious. It was important
for me to get an outside look at America even though I grew up in
Canada, it's an incredible country and I love it, but it's so close.
It's like being too close to a Monet or something. You have to move
back. Going to New Zealand helped me to get a read on this place that
the whole world was obsessed with.
I
also think that something interesting comes out when you do something
that you're afraid of, so I try to take things that I'm not sure that I
can do. And this was certainly one of them. I didn't feel like I was
right for this at all, and I wondered how to find truth in a fairy tale.
For now, I'm just going to
keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me
up on their walls, I'll love it.
I
think American news is pretty tragic in general. I can't tell the
difference between Entertainment Tonight (1981) and the news. It's all
about ratings. They are trying to sum it all up pretty quickly and try
to act as if they understand it.
The
theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't
know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to
capture it for ourselves.
I
understand the studios, in the sense that if they're going to spend $100
million on a film, they want to make sure they're gonna get that back .
. . but I don't know how to guarantee you you're going to make that
money back, and I'm uncomfortable working with those kind of numbers.
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