There's Something So Wonderful About Being An

I've Never Done Anything For Money. My First Love Is Things Of Limited Commercial Appeal. I Could Be Happy Doing Shakespeare For The Rest Of My Life.

I Think It's Very Important That Films Like Bad Hurt Don't Get Lost In The Mix Of The Sci-fi-kill-everything-on-the-screen-blood-dripping-down-the-walls Sort Of The World Of The Cinema That We Live In.

In The Theater, Actors Are The Essential Element Of The Work. In A Film, It's A Real Collaboration - Not That Theater Isn't, Because It Is - But It's A Collaboration To Such An Extent That You Can Give A Performance In Film That Sometimes You Look At And You Go, "well, That's Not The Performance I Was Trying To Give At All."

I Was So Lucky. I Was Very Broke And I Was Taking Classes At Lee Strasberg's Institute And I Saw A 3 X 5 Index Card On The Bulletin Board Advertising For College-aged Girls For A Film. That Was Animal House.

I Was Always Drawn Toward The Actor's Studio. I Studied At The Lee Strasberg Institute When I First Came To New York. One Of My Favorite Teachers Was One Of Al [pachino]'s Teachers, A Guy Named Charlie Laughton, Who Was Just A Wonderful, Wonderful Man.