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The 'Friday the 13th' Jason movies were way too scary for me.
I like movies a lot, and I feel really excited when I see a movie that moves me the right way.
Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.
I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.
Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.
Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.
I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.
There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.
Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.
They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.
I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.
If I were a star kid, I wouldn't have tried so many things. I would have done theatre and directly joined movies. I did radio and TV shows because I had to carve my own way. Outsiders like me have to reach Bollywood through modelling, theatre, or radio.
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.