I Like To Be In A Different

Eventually This All Passes. The Public Horrors Of Today Eventually Blow Away. And, Yes, You Are Changed By The Awful Wake Of Reckoning They Leave Behind. Hopefully In The Process You Don't Lose Your Ability To Throw Your Arms In The Air Again And Spin In Wild Abandon. That Is The Ultimate F.u. And - Finally - The Most Beautiful Survival Tool Of All. Don't Let Them Take That Away From You.

With 'taxi Driver,' I Had This Eureka Moment. I Realized That Acting Could Be Much More Than What I Had Been Doing. I Had To Build A Character That Wasn't Me.

I Don't Think There Is Anything Good About Fame. 'tables In Restaurants.' People Say That But, Then Again, Why Don't You Just Call The Day Before? Or Go Eat Somewhere Else?

Interestingly, When You Do Films, Sometimes You Have Conscious Reasons, Things That You Were Looking For, Or Stuff That You Were Trying To Do. And Then, You See The Film And You Think, "wow, It Ended Up Being Something Totally Different!"

When I Went Home, My Family Became A Little Lonely Family Because It Was Just Me And My Mom. Part Of My Longing To Go Back To Work Was Wanting To Be Surrounded By These People Who Were Teaching Me Things And Drinking Bad Coffee At Three In The Morning While We Were Lying Around In A Bikini In The Winter. Somehow It Just Felt Like Real Life. It Felt More Like Real Life Than My Life.