I Am Getting On In Years, And

I’ve Never Agreed With The Conventional Wisdom That ‘actors Are Great Liars.’ If More People Understood The Acting Process, The Goals Of Good Actors, The Conventional Wisdom Would Be ‘actors Are Terrible Liars,’ Because Only Bad Actors Lie On The Job. The Good Ones Hate Fakery And Avoid Manufactured Emotion At All Costs. Any Script Is Enough Of A Lie Anyway. (what Experience Does Any Actor Have With Flying A Spacecraft? Killing Someone?) What’s Called For, What Actors Are Hired For, Is To Bring Reality To The Arbitrary.

I Like The Tradition Of Ordinary Men In Extraordinary Circumstances And How They React To Events Which Force Them To Be Heroic In A Way That Is Not In Their Natures.

[hank In The Sex Tape] Such A Fun Part. That's How Jake Kasdan And I Ended Up Doing The Grinder Together, Because We Had Such A Great Time On Sex Tape.

I Also Listened To Hours And Hours And Hours And Hours And Hours Of [j.f.] Kennedy, And I Sort Of Built [ Accent]. And Then I Got On Set [of 'j.f.kennedy' Movie ] And Forgot It.but That's What You Want To Do. You Want It To Just Be Real. And I Think Authenticity Was Better Than - People Always Talk About When An Accent Doesn't Work, And The Phrase You Always Hear Is, "it Was Inconsistent."

One Of My Favorite Books [the Stand] Of All Time. I Grew Up Reading It.