My First Lessons In Comedy, How To

Helmut Newton Shot The Ad Campaign [for Bad Influence]. It's [james] Spader At The Top Of His Game, Right After Sex, Lies And Videotape. It's Sexy. It's Weird. It's Dark. The Characters Are Great.

I Also Listened To Hours And Hours And Hours And Hours And Hours Of [j.f.] Kennedy, And I Sort Of Built [ Accent]. And Then I Got On Set [of 'j.f.kennedy' Movie ] And Forgot It.but That's What You Want To Do. You Want It To Just Be Real. And I Think Authenticity Was Better Than - People Always Talk About When An Accent Doesn't Work, And The Phrase You Always Hear Is, "it Was Inconsistent."

When I Was Young And Crazy, I Was Young And Crazy. It Can Be Hard Enough Just To Be In Your Teens And 20s. Then Add Fame, Money, Access, And Every Single Person Telling You That You're The Greatest Person Who Ever Was, And It Can Be A Recipe For Disaster. Some People Literally Don't Survive It.

Trying To Execute That Kind Of Intricate Staging In The West Wing At The Same Time You're Doing Intricate Dialogue - It's Like Patting Your Head And Rubbing Your Stomach!

Anything That Is Stifled Will Eventually Ferment Or Explode.