I'm Not Saying I'm Not Bummed If

Now, Learning How To Make A Movie Is Something You Can Figure Out In About An Afternoon. The Physics Of It, The Marks, The Lights, Etc. What's Hard To Do Is To Suspend Your Own Feelings Of Self Consciousness. The Natural Actors Can Do That; They Can Become Part Of A Characterization And Learn How To Maintain It.

But Television, When I Was Doing It, Was All About Scoring. You Had To Make These Jokes Bang, Do Whatever You Could To Make The Material Really Pop. And If It Didn't, There Was Something Wrong With The Material, Or With You.

In The Early Days You Have A Tendency To Intellectualize, But You're Really Just Trying To Sound Smart And Score With The Chicks.

The Easiest Thing To Do Is To Rag On The Media, Because It Isn't Doing A Very Good Job Right Now. It Is So Much Easier To Profit From Celebrating The Worst Aspects Of Ourselves. Acting Strikes Me As The Antithesis Of That. We Can Examine The Worst Aspects Of Ourselves, But We Don't Have To Celebrate Them.

In The 1998 Oscars, I Found Myself In The Bathroom In A Stall, Next To Tom Selleck. So I Leaned Over And I Said ‘looks Like We’re A Couple Of Peeing Toms.’ His Angry Silence Is Something I’ll Never Forget.