No One Wants To See A Hero

As A Matter Of Fact, That Was A Bit Of A Problem For Me At The Beginning Of My Career - The Problem Of Identification. In The Conversation I Played A Character Who Was Gay, So Nobody Recognised Me From American Graffiti. When I Did Apocalypse Now, After Star Wars, I Played An Intelligence Officer Of The American Army. George Lucas Saw The Footage I Had Done And Didn't Recognise Me Until Halfway Through The Scene.

When I Met Scientists, I Found Them To Be As Various As Any Other Group Of People.

I Think What A Lot Of Action Movies Lose These Days, Especially The Ones That Deal With Fantasy, Is You Stop Caring At Some Point Because You've Lost Human Scale.

I've Never Been Bothered By Proximity To Special Effects And I've Never Felt Disadvantaged By Them. They're All Part Of A Movie, And When The Movie's Under Control I Don't Feel Upstaged By Them.

It Doesn't Matter To Me Whether I Go Back To Outer Space Or Not [while Acting]. The Job's The Same And I Don't Have Any Sort Of Genre Preferences. I'm Looking For A Good Story And A Good Character, Whether Earthbound Or Not.