[on The Birth Of His Son After

Once You've Been Really Bad In A Movie, There's A Certain Kind Of Fearlessness You Develop.

It's Very Easy To Go Down, So Always Live Up. Incline Yourself Upward.

Early On, If I Was Alone Two Three Nights In A Row, I'd Start Writing Poems About Suicide.

It [tv] Is The Cancer Of Film. It's Why People Can't Be Educated To Film. In The Late '60s, We Expected To See A Movie Or Two Every Week And Be Stimulated, Excited And Inspired. And We Did. Every Week After Week. Antonioni, Goddard, Truffaut - This Endless List Of People. And Then Comes Television And Home Video. I Know How To Work Exactly For The Big Screen, But It Doesn't Matter What I Think About The Art Of Movie-making Versus Tv.

I Assume Most Of The Characters I Play Are Exactly Like Me.