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As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.
Acting is playing pretend, playing a children's game at an adult level, but with children's rules. It's fun to play bad guys. I've never been in a fight in my life, so it's fun to play something that's different.
I think people like watching edgy things.
I'm emotionally in tune with my feelings and what people mean to me, and I have no trouble saying it and relating to it.
You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
I've done a few movies where I really liked the project, but I wasn't sure about the director, and I still did it and my instinct was right, in the beginning. Even though it was a good story, the guy still didn't really know what he was doing.
I like to think that even with some of the more intense ones sometimes there is humour in there, you try to make a complete human being, whether the guy is good or bad.
A stare is really nothing more than what you're thinking inside.
I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.
I haven't seen about half the movies I've done. You know, you've got to make a living, but some I don't get a good vibe with.
You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.
It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.
Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because ... these people can't tell if you're joking around, you just can't have any sense of humour; you really can't.
I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.
I feel I've done everything late in life. Got married late, and I didn't do my first movie until I was 31. But in this crazy business, you never know what's going to happen. Maybe after 20 years of making movies I'll become an overnight sensation.
The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.
When I found out Cusack was involved, I liked that a lot.
Just by the nature of what we do it kind of gets you out of the regularities of life. Playing pretend for a living is a good way to have a release and playing make believe is a good way of getting away from it and doing things like this. So I think work gets me away from life.
I get up at six to work out. I've done it since school, it's always been part of my life. It's a good way to take the edge off. I like getting up early; I've got a daughter, I'm a single dad.
I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.
My dad said, 'Go to college and take whatever you want.' So, I went to the University of Miami. When I got up to the line at registration, I saw that you had to take math and history. I said, 'There's no way I'm taking math and history.' And right next to it was the line for the drama department.
I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company.
I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.
When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part.
The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.
My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.
Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.
I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
This is the profession I chose, and you really learn to save your money because you never know how it's going to go, but you still want to get out there and work.
People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!'
With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you're not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you're not in the framework of the script, you're just making everything easier so it fits you.
The independent-minded movies - it's always an uphill battle to get them made and seen. You do what you can, and go out there after and try to tell people about it, but at the end of the day, that's all you can do.
What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.
So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.
It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.