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A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys
and they dress like cowboys.
Acting is
very immediate.
Again, in
Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go
to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did
that, which is not legal.
But HEAT -
playing a psychopath and guys that spend a lot of years in prison - that
kind of mentality - but having to do it in a very specific period of
time - it was actually good for me because I didn't get sidetracked.
During
Batman we had rehearsals for HEAT on the weekends and Michael Mann the
director's great - he loves all the realism so we went into a bank once
with flak jackets on under our suits and guns and the only person that
knew was the bank manager.
I always
had an interest in religion and a kind of sense of trying to reconcile
ideas I had about art with these feelings.
I have a
lot of musician friends, and I started hanging out with Sean Lennon a
lot and his record is fantastic.
I have two
children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know
really inspire me.
I respect
people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other
people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
I sang the
songs in The Doors.
I think
what Ralph Nader did in this last election or what he has been doing
with Greenpeace is amazing, knowing that he loathes the arena - he
doesn't like talking - he's not very good at it.
I was in
love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping
out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.
I'm getting
too old already.
I'm very
wary of news on television.
If you look
up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on
TV.
If you
think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well,
that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I
care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just
as tasty as the real thing.
It was very
serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this
comedy called TOP SECRET.
It's the
first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a
photography collage.
Jim
Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the
psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and
they do want to get caught.
Kiss, Bang
is out of the detective genre, and it fits in that mold, but I don't
know if audiences are that familiar with the Raymond Chandler stuff. But
this isn't a period one.
My first
girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my
first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.
My
perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
News is
something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we
watch on television.
Partly
because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in
the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I
found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
Postman is
a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our
culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that
relies on television.
So it's
always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals.
It's hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.
That's the
joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art -
it's safe.
The first
play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
The Secret
Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not
set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a
leader when something comes up.
The things
that are going on that really matter to us, and I identify myself as a
New Yorker because I lived here ten years.
To me,
Ghandi's a really inspiring character because he understood that in the
structure of the world he lived in - that untouchability had to end.
Warner Bros
offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was
because of The Saint.
Well I sure
had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
Without
deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other
things.
Work can be
hard sometimes - acting - the arts can be hard sometimes in that way -
hard to give yourself that inspiration if you don't have a job.
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