I Think Any Good Actor Is An

In Theatre You Can't Ad Lib, So You Want To Pick Really Good Material, Like David Mamet Or Shakespeare Or Whatever. You Want To Be Really Careful About What You Do. But In The Movies, You Do Have More Wiggle-room. You Do Have More Opportunities To Improvise. It's Fun To Improvise, But I Still Think It's Better To Have A Great Script.

I've Done So Many Independents For So Many Years. Leads That Nobody's Seen.

I Sometimes Can't Do Movies Just For The Money. I Really Can't. I Mean, I've Tried. Believe Me, I'd Love To Just Take The Money And Run.

It's Hard To Not Get Typed In Hollywood. They Really Want To Type You. I'm Trying To Avoid That, Because I Want To Do A Lot Of Things. I Know What I'm Capable Of. I Forgive Them Because They Don't Know. They Haven't Seen Me Play Hamlet. They're Not Going To Cast Me As An English Aristocrat. I'm Going To Have To Prove That On My Own. That's Okay. That's What You Have To Fight For If You Want To Be An Artist.

I Remember Being Very Influenced By 'taxi Driver', And Also Tommy Lee Jones In 'coal Miner's Daughter' A Little Bit.