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• A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.
• Acting is a short, sharp shock, and then I have a two-year break to do some directing. I mean you have to stop-OK, be serious about it-so I’ve put the kids through school.
• Before I started, I worried about what I was going to say to the actors. It kept me awake at night. Sometimes you get the questions wrong.
• Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.
• British acting schools are diferent. There is a cultural difference. Americans, Africans, British, I’m not sure we share a language.
• Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.
• Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.
• Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.
• Extra work sucks. Get out quick.
• For me, acting’s just great fun. A lot more fun than making sculptures, so that’s what I wanted to do. It wasn’t any great calling-maybe years later, when I’m 60 or whatever, I’ll pretend it was, who knows?! But acting is just the most fun I could ever possibly have in my life… and it still is.
• How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.
• I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.
• I can’t do anything else. So if this falls through, I’m screwed.
• I didn’t want to make soundtrack film or a gun movie. These are the reasons I wanted to make a movie. I wanted to make an adult movie.
• I don’t care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you’ll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.
• I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there’s about 50 people with producer credits, so what’s the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.
• I like the Knicks, the Knicks are OK.
• I love Charleston. That was one of the best experiences I have had making a film. I’m back to Carolina to do my next film.
• I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.
• I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven’t been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.
• I studied Speed Racer, Gigantor, and other pop culture TV courtesy of Quentin.
• I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don’t make the best films, so who’s to say who is right.
• I try and take the family with me everywhere I can. It’s getting harder the more kids I have. But celibacy sucks.
• I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.
• I’d seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.
• I’m a workaholic.
• I’m sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I’m bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor-a real person.
• If you meet somebody who’s spent any length of time in prison, you don’t let your guard down. Ever. And really, that’s what that was about-if you open up too much, you’re asking to get your teeth kicked in.
• Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason… to write for me.
• My mentors were my editiors. You come from location work with a million people and questions, and you get into the editing room, and its two people.
• One of the guys who worked at the Ape School became my stunt double so we just kept working on different things and just play around.
• People remember villians. Sometimes in an action movie or sci-fi movie, being a villain is actually kind of interesting.
• The first role I ever did… I played a Nazi skinhead.
• The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I’m concerned.
• There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
• There just seems to be more acceptance now of… other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.
• We made lots of films with blue lights and smoke. It’s like our films were an audiiton for Hollywood, and we shouldn’t be doing that.
• Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.
• When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I’m not going to run down an actor for doing this.
• You read a script and its based on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, and it goes right in the bin.
• I have a bad time between jobs because I’m always convinced I’ll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.
• Like going to Liberace’s house on acid.
• There’s a lot of blood in that film. I think there’s only nine pints in a body; we had about four gallons. – on Reservoir Dogs.
• (On Tupac Shakur) I found him to be incredibly talented. I used to call him “New Money” because he had a massive Bentley and a different model sat in the car each day, and he used to call me “Free Shit” because I always used to get loads of free stuff from companies. It’s a shame what happened – I think he could have gone on to be quite something as an actor.
• I’ve never really played a goody in the traditional sense. Anyway, I don’t think that I look the part of a heroic character, especially not in Hollywood, so they never really come up. On a childish level, villains are just more fun.
• I remember watching the Sex Pistols on TV when I came home from school – I think it was Johnny Rotten and Siouxsie Sioux from the Banshees – and they started swearing and the guy interviewing them got fired for provoking them. It was a wonderful time. It was like saying, ‘Ugly is beautiful, everything you taught us is wrong.