Fame Is Very Corrosive And You Have

I Don't Flatter Myself - I'm Not A Scientist, I'm Not A Conservation Expert.

You Never Make All Things For All People And Can't Always Pander To The Broadest Denominator. I Keep An Eye Toward Doing The Themes That Interest Me. Do They Move Me? Interest Me? Make Me Think? When I Run Across Something That Is Provocative In An Unsettling Way, It Appeals To Me.

I Don't Think You Should Sit Around And Wait For People To Give You An Opportunity To Express Yourself Or Do Your Work, Or Whatever. Actors Have To Be Producers And Writers Have To Be Producers.

When I Was About 16 Or 17, I Had A Teacher Who Took A Group Of Us To The National Theater In Washington, D.c., And I Saw Ian Mckellen Do His One-man Show - I Think It Was Called Acting Shakespeare - And It Completely Bombed Me; It Put The Zap On My Brain In A Big Way.

I Get Heartbroken Flying Into L.a. It's Just This Feeling Of Unspecific Loss. Can You Imagine What The San Fernando Valley Was When It Was All Wheat Fields? Can You Imagine What John Steinbeck Saw?