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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
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