Either I Act Or I Die.

I’ve Always Been In The Theater. I’ve Always Gone To It. That’s Been My Way To Cope. Early On In My Career, I Remember Running - Fleeing - To The Theater As A Way Of Coping With All The Meshugaas That Was Going On For Me.

You Take A Guy Like George Clooney Who Goes Out There To Darfur, And Gets Things Done! That's Magical. He's Done A Great Thing.

We're Charlatans In A Way, We're Magic People. Part Of The Behind The Scenes Stuff Is To Loosen You Up, To Make You Feel That You Are Experiencing This. This Is My Style, I Did It In Looking For Richard, Too. And I Figure, If I Can Weave It Into The Actual Play And Get The Audience Interested, Like The Robes Going Up And Down, They'll Pay Attention Long Enough To Consume It.

Failure's Relative. I've Always Felt, Even Early On, If I Lose The Freedom To Fail, Something's Not Right About That. It's How You Treat Failure, Too. There's Something To Learn From It. I've Had Movies That Have Failed Colossally, So You Kind Of Analyze Your Failures: What Kind Of Failure Was It? A Failure Because It's Misunderstood By Others? A Failure Because You Misunderstood It Yourself?

When I Was Doing 'scarface,' I Remember Being In Love At That Time. One Of The Few Times In My Life. And I Was So Glad It Was At That Time. I Would Come Home And She Would Tell Me About Her Life That Day And All Her Problems And I Remember Saying To Her, Look, You Really Got Me Through This Picture Because I Would Shed Everything When I Came Home.