If I Fail, At Least I Will

I'm A Technician. I Don't Go For The Get-into-the-role Stuff. I Read The Lines And Play The Scenes.

I Think Anybody Over 30 Plays Parents Because It Happens In Your Thirties And So That's Kind Of A Natural Progression. But I'm Definitely Drawn To It. It's Probably The Most Intense, Passionate Thing That Happens To You As You Get Older.

Everybody Reads For Me. I Was Never Weird About That. I Never Minded Coming In And Reading. They Should Know If I'm The Right Person, And I Should Know If I Want To Do A Movie.

With 'taxi Driver,' I Had This Eureka Moment. I Realized That Acting Could Be Much More Than What I Had Been Doing. I Had To Build A Character That Wasn't Me.

I Was One Of Those Avid Moviegoers As A Kid, And We Didn't Have Video, So We Went To See Everything Five Times. I Went To See Every Foreign Film Playing In My Town. As Times Went On, I Watched A Lot Less Films. I Have A Different Film School Now. My Film School Now Is My Life Experience.