I Think Having Nature Be A Part

Time Is So Much A Part Of What Makes You Close To People.

Years Ago I Was Going To Play Chet Baker In Another Movie And I Really Felt Drawn To That Character And The Script Is Good And I Met With Robert And We Seemed Simpatico And We Developed. But I Had A Real Passion For That Role And That Brought Me Deep Into That Film 'cause I Got The Sense That Robert Budreau Was Going To Really Let Me Be Creative Inside This Part.

Alejandro Amenabar Is A Different Kind Of Director Than I Lot Of The Directors I've Asked For. He Really Asks You To Enter His Dream As Opposed To, You Know, A Guy Like Sidney Lumet Or Something Is Going To Ask You To Create A Character Almost Like A Documentary. He Wants You To Make The People Really Real And He's Going To Capture It Like A Documentarian.

I've Turned Down Good Directors Before Because I Knew The Part Didn't Speak To Me And I've Worked With Less Talented Directors Before Because The Part I Had Such Passion For.

I Can't Tell You How Many Times In The '90s I'd Meet Somebody, We'd Be Having A Nice Time, And They'd Sigh And Go, 'this Is Exactly Like Before Sunrise.' And I'd Have To Get Up And Leave.