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If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.
The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.
You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.
I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.
All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I don't suppose I know where that starts. I know that I have to, like every other person, make decisions and have opinions. But I'm real careful to not judge crassly or cheaply someone else's life.
I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.
The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.
But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.
What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
