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I don't have much desire to move to LA much yet. I don't think you can expect it any time soon, but who knows what can happen in the future.
Working with Woody Allen was extremely gratifying. He has such a vast catalog of great work that doing one of his films was somewhat unreal.
By the fourth or fifth take, I had gotten over the 'Oh my God, it's a Stanley Kubrick movie' and got around to doing a little bit of acting.
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.
When you're on film or TV, essentially you're in front of the camera. Unless it's a Tim Burton thing, the desire is to be real and grounded.
I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!
I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.
I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.
The fact that you can say stuff to people that other people are only thinking is always fun. It's a great tool for comedic moments, as well.
Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people.
I basically went into broadcasting when I was in college because I knew that there was nothing like what I had in my mind on TV at the time.
Sometimes it's nice when you go out on the road, and you come back, and your girlfriend's left you. You have complete freedom at that point.
If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.
Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
I think people are getting more and more -unfortunately - inured to violence. People are less sensitive to things they should wake up about.
I was going to Hartford High School and when the theater bug hit, it hit hard and it saved my life. It gave me focus, direction and purpose.
One of the things that motion capture and/or voice acting does is allow you to continue your career, change it, or bring a new aspect to it.
I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence.
Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life. Trauma.
America doesn't like to hear about things like welfare. 'Don't talk about that. We don't like what it did to people!' Yeah, but it happened.
I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer.
I can only imagine being the most famous person in the world, what that must be like when you go to the grocery store, when you go anywhere.
It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.
If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for Iron Giant, and I'm not even on the screen.
The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.
I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.
I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.
I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.
My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, "No, I just want to be an actor."
Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, 'No, I just want to be an actor.'
If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.
You'd much rather act with a pal, someone you know really well. That way, you can cut all the niceties and go right to insulting each other.
It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.
In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.
I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.
The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.
I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.
Once both gay marriage and marijuana are finally legal, those of you against them are not invited to the really fun parties I'm gonna throw.
My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.
I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.
I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.
I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.
You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem.
The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation.
You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!