It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well written, ... I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.
Honestly, what drew me to the project was the quality of the script. It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well written, ... I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.
Like I said earlier, the movie is metaphorical for the world. Today we're seeing so many instances of monumental duplicity, ... I think that's the task, in a way, to show what an architect of duplicity this character is, in his simplicity, forthrightness and morality. It's a strange and wonderful study of how far a horrible lie can be taken in terms of a character.
Confession Of A Pit Fighter
I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.
[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... because the camera crew was literally bolted in. You can't get out; you can't go up or down. It really brought home the visceral feeling of what those men were willing to put themselves through.
I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.
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I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.
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I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.
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I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.
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I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.
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You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it.
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I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.
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Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots.
My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.
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