I Hope The Perception Is That I'm

You Need Some Insecurity If You're An Actor. It Keeps The Pot Boiling. I Haven't Yet Started To Think About Retiring. I Was Shocked When I Heard About Paul Newman Retiring At Age 82. Most Actors Just Fade Away Like Old Soldiers.

We Were Doing Scarface Many Years Ago...and I Remember Having My Coffee And Looking At The Beach, The Surf, And I Saw A Hundred People Looking Out Into The Ocean. I Thought, What's Going On? Did Some Whale Get Washed Up To Shore? So I Stood Up On The Table To See What It Was, And It Was The Director, Brian De Palma, Standing There Alone By The Surf And They Were All Waiting For Him. And I Never Forgot That Because It Represented To Me What A Director Is, What A Director Does.

Actually, The Person I Related To Was James Dean. I Grew Up With The Dean Thing. Rebel Without A Cause Had A Very Powerful Effect On Me.

Is It Possible To Do Something That That Makes An Audience Uncomfortable, Challenges Them, Makes Them See Things They're Not Used To? Here In These Films [salome The Play And Salomaybe], I Have The Opportunity To Say Something About How I Feel About Things.

I've Had Very Deep Relationships That Lasted For Long Periods Of Time With People - You Could Almost Call Them Marriages, Even Though I Didn't Marry. But It Was Costly.