At The Time, The Hotel New Hampshire

I Think It Was Alfred Hitchcock Who Said 90 Percent Of Successful Moviemaking Is In The Casting. The Same Is True In Life. Who You Are Exposed To, Who You Choose To Surround Yourself With, Is A Unique Variable In All Of Our Experiences And It Is Hugely Important In Making Us Who We Are. Seek Out Interesting Characters, Tough Adversaries And Strong Mentors And Your Life Can Be Rich, Textured, Highly Entertaining And Successful, Like A Best Picture Winner. Surround Yourself With Dullards, People Of Vanilla Safety And Unextraordinary Ease, And You May Find Your Life Going Straight To Dvd.

I'm Thinking Of How Unexpected And Yet Oddly Preordained Life Can Be. Events Are Upon You In An Instant, Unforseen And Without Warning, And Often Times Marked With Disappointment And Tragedy, But Equally Often Leading To A Better Understanding Of The Bittersweet Truth Of Life.

[bad Influence]was David Koepp's First Big Screenplay. It Was Actually A Writing Sample That Was Around Town To Get David Work At The Time, And Steve Tisch - Now The Owner Of The New York Giants - Found It, Loved It, And Together We Put It Together. But I'd Say That Would Be The One I'd Tell People To Go And Look At If They Haven't Seen It.

I Have Other Obligations Now - The Show, My Family, My Life... Though I Know That Without My Sobriety I Wouldn't Have Any Of Those Things.

You Can Meet People Who Are Really Beautiful. Then, When You See Them Angry For The First Time, All Of A Sudden They're Not Beautiful Anymore. They Didn't Just Step Into The Other Room And Have Plastic Surgery; They're Still The Same Physically. It's Just That Something Inside Of Them Has Changed. They're No Longer Attractive.