When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to Heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to his children. You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.
If you look at the paths of other actors, most people have a curve where you hit it and there’s a time where you make a lot of money and they let you make your movies, and then they take it away and it’s gone.
The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn’t let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.
Most of my acting jobs have resulted in a series of mortifying revelations spread over years and years following the shoot.
I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat’s deck and beaten to death.
Sometimes being an actor is kind of demanding in very different ways.
I’ve written some love letters in my life, I can say.
Part of the criteria for doing a project is that it’s scary or challenging because at some point you go, ‘It’s too scary; it’s too challenging. I don’t want to do it.’ But things that seem easy are never any fun.
When you’re the younger brother, usually it’s not that common that you’re having these experiences that your older brother is in awe of.
I feel like I’ve been picky through the years and would do one movie a year or one movie every two years, and I want to work a lot more. So if I can find something that just happens right away as a director, I’ll do it if I really love it, but otherwise, I want to keep working as an actor and getting better.
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