In Your Mid-twenties, The Paint Is Still

I Met A Lot Of Famous People When I Was About 24. And None Of Them Seemed Very Appealing. And So I Didn't Know Why I Would Struggle To Be That Kind Of Person.

I Remember Staying Up All Night Waiting To See The First Screening Of Cape Fear Because You Knew That Every Time Robert Deniro Had A Performance It Was Going To Be Revelatory. Then Deniro Hit This Place, He Seemed Like He Was Done With The Emotional Cost Of Impaling Himself Like That, And He Dedicated Himself To Comedy.

If You Covet Fame, If You Covet All The Superficial Accolades, You're Gonna Be Miserable 'cause You're Never Going To Get Enough Praise. If You Covet Contributing Something Substantive To Movies, Music, Literature, Then You Won't Be Unhappy.

I Really Did Regression To Work With Alejandro [amenabar]. I Found Him Very Interesting. His Movie, The Others, Is One Of The Better Scary Movies Of The Last Period Of Time.

The Thing That Makes A Great Genre Movie Is One That's Not Just Entertainment, Not Just Horror Or Sci-fi Or Whatever. The Ones I Love Are The Genre Pictures With Some Subversive Message Underlying It All.