Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.
When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.
For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.
I love good food. I’m an epicurean, that’s for sure. … But I am not really a good cook.
I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.
The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.
I don't know what would be antithetical to do on the other side, maybe a Tyler Perry movie or something. No, there are very few comedies that live in between that. Or you're doing some kid thing like a Jim Carrey movie with animated something that's like that. Yeah, I've wanted to do them. I like doing them. I did Talk to Me. That was pretty much a comedy.
A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.
But puberty was. . . well, before puberty, at school, I didn't tell kids I was a transvestite 'cause I thought they might kill me with sticks, you know?
If we leave the European Union, yes there will be bumps in the road, inevitably, but we will be in a better position to deal with them.