I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.
But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.
Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.
O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.
I'm the master marketer.
No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.
I care very much about all of my characters, recurring or not. I try to imagine something about that person beyond his or her physical appearance. After creating them, part of my job is to inhabit them and try to see their world from their perspective.