I'm About As Healthy As A Person

I Thought, I Need To Reinvent Myself. I Want Every Day Of Life To Be Wonderful, Fascinating, Interesting, Creative. And What Am I Gonna Do To Make That Happen?

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.

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."

When Independent Films Break Through And Actually Make It Into Any Level Of Mainstream-ness Or Get Seen By People Or Find A Life Actually In Theaters, It's Extraordinary. And It Doesn't Happen That Often.

Let's Just Say I Decided That While My Son Is Young I Don't Want To Do Projects That Would Take Me Away For Months.