My Standard Uniform Is A T-shirt And

I Very Comprehensively Studied Irving Thalberg And His Biographies. He's Who [scott] Fitzgerald Roughly Modeled The Character After. He Worked For Him, As A Writer, When He Was At Mgm. And, Of Course, I Revisited The Novel And The Politics Of Mgm And The Studio System At The Time And Familiarized Myself With The World. There Was A Great Deal Of Physical And Literary Work That Went Into It.

I Like Characters With Flaws, Who Have Shadow.

I At Least Felt The Obligation To Speak Clearly [in 'the Last Tycoon']. This Is Pre-brando And Pre-james Dean. Nobody Mumbled Back Then.

Look, None Of The Artists Who I Admire Or Respect Have Ever Shied Away From A Role Because It Might Make Them Unpopular With Somebody.

I Like Not To Know, Unless It's Something That I Need To Know, Specifically, For How I Color A Performance.