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America Is Dumb, It's Like A Dumb Puppy That Has Big Teeth That Can Bite And Hurt You, Aggressive. My Daughter Is Four, My Boy Is One. I'd Like Them To See America As A Toy, A Broken Toy. Investigate It A Little, Check It Out, Get This Feeling And Then Get Out.

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America Is Dumb, It's Like A Dumb Puppy That Has Big Teeth That Can Bite And Hurt You, Aggressive. My Daughter Is Four, My Boy Is One. I'd Like Them To See America As A Toy, A Broken Toy. Investigate It A Little, Check It Out, Get This Feeling And Then Get Out.

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Some Filmmakers Go Into A Film And It's Already Shot And Cut In Their Head.

They (the People Of Puerto Rico) Are Truly The Sweetest People On Earth.

I'm Not Sure I'm Adult Yet.

Alice And I, We'd Met Before, But We Were Able To Kind Of Sit And Chat On The Set Of Dark Shadows, And Talk About Maybe Writing Some Songs Together. We Started Doing That, And Then One Thing Led To Another And It Became This Vampire Project - Because He Was Telling Stories About All Those Days, Which Were Fascinating.

I Really Approached The Film As If It Was A White Big Piece Of Paper And I Was Going To Draw A Picture On It. And Whether That Picture Was Good Or Bad, Whatever People Thought Of It, What They Could Never Take Away Was That It Was My Picture.

I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.

Ironically, It Was Only Maybe A Year Prior To Tim Calling I Had Re-read Alice In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass, And What I Took Away From It Was These Very Strange, Little Cryptic Nuggets That He'd Thrown In There.

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I've Weaned Myself Down To About, On A Great Day, On A Really Great Day, Three Cigarettes. For A Nicotine Junkie The Essential Cigs Are Three: The First-of-the-day Cigarette Smoked After Lunch, The After-dinner Cigarette And Then The One Taken Whenever You Want - The Luxury-wild-card Smoke. It Used To Be Quite A Bit More. It Used To Be, I'd Smoke The Table. I'd Smoke The Patch. I'd Smoke The Gum. So I Feel Good About It.

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Whenever You Have A Photo Shoot Or Something Like That, It’s Like-you Just Feel Dumb. It’s Just So Stupid.

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She's Kind Of A Walking Poem, She's This Perfect Beauty...but At The Same Time Very Deep, Very Smart.

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I Was Never Disappointed By The People I've Admired. And The Choices I Made When I Was In A Position Where It Was Do-or-die Were Made With My Heroes In Mind.

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My Body Is A Journal In A Way. It's Like What Sailors Used To Do, Where Every Tattoo Meant Something, A Specific Time In Your Life When You Make A Mark On Yourself, Whether You Do It Yourself With A Knife Or With A Professional Tattoo Artist.

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I Think Kids, In General As An Audience, Are The Way Forward Because They're Not Sort Of Sullied By Intellectual Expectation Or This Or That. It's A Very Pure Kind Of Response To The Work.

While They'd Be Setting Up Shots, Suddenly, There Were 17 Make-up Chicks, Just Listening To Marlon Telling These Amazing Stories That Were Probably Lies. He Was A Fascinating Individual. I Learned A Lot From Him.

Everything Here Is Edible; Even I'm Edible. But That, Dear Children, Is Cannibalism, And Is In Fact Frowned Upon In Most Societies.

Every Relationship Has Problems But When Those Problems Arise You Have To Realise That They Don't Mean Your Relationship Is Broken, It's Just A Little Bent. Bent Things Can Be Fixed And Like So Your Relationship Can Too. The First Step However Is Realising That.

It's Absolutely Fine When Wile E. Coyote Walks In With A Band-aid On His Head, After A 3,000-pound Rock Is Dropped On Him. That Is What Ed Wood Meant By The Suspension Of Disbelief.

People Say I Make Strange Choices, But They're Not Strange For Me. My Sickness Is That I'm Fascinated By Human Behavior, By What's Underneath The Surface, By The Worlds Inside People.

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Interestingly Enough, For Me, A Character Like Captain Jack, You Feel Like You Could Just Continue. The Possibilities Are Endless And Limitless. There Is Any Possibility Of Madness And Absurdity That Could Commence, So You Feel That, With This Character, You're Never Really Done.

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When You Realize You're Essentially You're God, There Ain't Nothing On Earth More Powerful Than You, You Can Do Anything You Want.

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Yeah, In Every Film That I've Been Lucky Enough To Do With Tim, There's Always Some Form Of Torture, And The Nails Were Tim's Idea. They Were The Length Of The Fingers And Stuff, But It Was Okay Because I Had A Troop Of People Who Would Help Me Go To The Bathroom. They Had To Have Treatment Afterwards But They're Okay Now. That Is True.

I Trust Kids Far More Than I Do Adults. Kids Give You The Honest Opinion. They Tell The Truth.

It's Amazing When You Get To A Certain Age, And You Talk About Sleep In The Same Way You Spoke About Getting Inebriated... I Got Eight Hours Last Night. It Was Fantastic!

As You Get Older, You Recognize The Erotic Nature Of The Vampire And The Idea Of The Undead.

I Don’t Think Of Myself As Being A Celebrity, It’s Too Mortifying. I Have A Hard Time Watching Myself On Screen And It’s Getting Worse. I Can’t Tell Whether My Work Is Good Or Not.

They Said, "you Get $2 Million To Make The Film, If You're Not In It. If You Are In It, You Get $5 Million To Make The Film." There Was No Way To Make The Thing For $2 Million, So I Made It For $5 Million. And Then, It Turned Out There Was No Way To Make The Thing For $5 Million. That's When It Got Weird.

I Think, For Me As An Actor, If You Get To A Place Where You're Satisfied, You're Happy With It, Then You're Dead. It's Over. You're Not Hungry Anymore. You Won't Try Things Anymore.

Any Character That You Come Up With Or Create Is A Piece Of You. You're Putting Yourself Into That Character, But There's The Guise Of The Character. So There's A Certain Amount Of Safety In The Character, Where You Feel More Safe Being The Character Than You Do Being Just You

You Always Miss Them [characters You've Played] Once You've Walked Away, But Part Of Them Always Stays With You Too.

America Is Dumb, It's Like A Dumb Puppy That Has Big Teeth That Can Bite And Hurt You, Aggressive.

I'm Not Blockbuster Boy.

The Idea Of Dancing Is The Only Thing That Scares Me.

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If I Ever Thought Of Directing Again, I Mean - I Don't Know, Even The Idea Of Directing A Film Is A Strange One For Me, Because I Feel Kind Of Anti Mathematics In A Way In That Sense. Anti - I Don't Like When Things Make Sense, I Prefer If They Don't, So If I Made A Film, It Wouldn't Make Any Sense And No One Would See It. So Maybe I'll Just Make Little Films At Home With My Phone, Never To Be Released.

Marlon [brando] Showed Me That You Could Do The Work And Not Have To Shut Yourself Off From People Or Your Family.

I Mean, I Think Everybody Should Probably Approach A Film That It's Another Unwanted Thing. That's Going To Be Seared Onto My Brain For The Rest Of My Life. Thank You For That.

And Then, 'why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk?' Those Things Just Became So Important To The Character. You Realize That The More You Read It, If I Read The Book Again Today, I'd Find 100 Other Things That I Missed Last Time. It's A Constantly Changing Book.

Most People Are Really Nuts And That's Fascinating To Me.

I Was Definitely Never A Crowd Pleaser.

I Don't Like Watching Myself In The Movies Because I Don't Like Being Aware Of The Product. I Like The Process. I Enjoy That.

I Would Give Everything If I Could Only Keep My Family.

Well, Having No Intelligence, I'm Looking Forward To Gaining Some, Whether Artificial, Superficial Or Super-duper.

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If You Had To Chose One Half Of Your Son, Which One Would It Be?" What Kind Of A Question Is That?!" No Need To Snap. It Was Just A Question.

You Never Think You're On The Verge Of Disaster While You're Looking Over The Edge Yourself. It's Your Friends And Family Who Are Trying To Get You To Stop Destroying Yourself And After A While It Kind Of Sank In And I Just Cleaned Up My Act.

It's Kind Of Interesting To Experience That Kind Of A Ride After Well, Essentially So Many Years Of Enjoying A Career Based On Failures And Then Suddenly Something Clicks. The Weird Thing Is, I Never Changed A Thing. The Process Is Still The Process As It Ever Was. The Fact That People Decided To Go And See A Movie That I Was In Was Probably The Most Shocking Thing That I've Ever Been Through.

I'm Attracted To The Extreme Light And The Extreme Dark. I'm Interested In The Human Condition And What Makes People Tick. I'm Interested In The Things People Try To Hide.

I Actually Did Do A Musical Many Years Ago With John Waters Called Cry-baby, But Technically It Was Only Half Me - It Wasn't Me Singing. Tim's [ Burton] The Only Person Brave Enough To Actually Let Me Try To Sing.

Not Being Well-versed In That Arena Myself, It's A Little Bit Frightening Because I'm Not Very Good In Those Situations With Lots Of People And Lots Of Famous People And Cameras And All Of That. It's Not My Specialty.

I Certainly Had This Fascination With Monsters And Vampires As Did Tim And Whatever This Darkness, This Mystery, This Intrigue. And Then, As You Get Older, You Recognize The Erotic Nature Of The Vampire And The Idea Of The Undead.

It's Good To Experience Hollywood In Short Bursts, I Guess. Little Snippets. I Don't Think I Can Handle Being Here All The Time, It's Pretty Nutty.

When I Was A Kid, We Watched The Vietnam War On The Six O'clock News, And It Was Desensitizing. You Felt You Were Watching A War Film; Meanwhile You Were Really Watching These Guys Getting Blown To Bits. Parents Need To Protect Their Kids From Watching That Stuff.

Now, Bring Me That Horizon.

With A Character Like A Captain Jack, Who Can Essentially Set Up These Verbal Land Mines Around Him, And Just Keep Passing The "absurdity Ball" Around And The "irreverence Ball" Around, And Keep People Guessing And Keep People Confused, There's Great Safety In That. Me, Myself, Personally, I Learn From It. It's A Real Pleasure, And I Do Need Him.

The Weirdest Thing In The World Is To See Some Guy Who Is Just Super Earnest.

If It's Called A Selfie, Why Are There People In It?

I've Always Been Frightened Of Karaoke, So I've Never Tried It. Karaoke Scares The Hell Out Of Me!

I Found A Girl, Fell In Love, She Had A Baby, And I Fell In Love Again.

You Can't Plan The Kind Of Deep Love That Results In Children. Fatherhood Was Not A Conscious Decision. It Was Part Of The Wonderful Ride I Was On. All The Math Finally Worked.

Do What You Really Want To Do. Don't Play Their Game! Don't Do What They Want. Find Your Own Way.

An Actor Needs To Be Not Remotely Anywhere Close To In Control, And A Filmmaker Has To Be Totally In Control.

I Did Mostly Alcohol. There Were Drugs, Too - Pills - And There Was A Danger That I Would Go Over The Edge. I Could Have. I Thank God I Didn't.

I Remember In That Red Leisure Suit I Sort Of Felt Like A Pizza Hut Employee, And The White One Was The Ultimate, With The White Turtleneck Collar, That Was The Ultimate In Bad Taste.

If Anybody Is Getting Their Ass Handed To Them, It's Not Al [pachino]. It's Coming [toward You]. I'm Psychotic.

There's No Truth Anymore.

The Birth Of My Daughter, Gave Me Life.

I Experimented With Drugs And I Experimented With Everything That Little Boys Do - Vandalism, Throwing Eggs At Cars, Breaking And Entering Schools And Destroying A Room. But I Finally Got To A Point Where I Looked Around And Said, "this Is Not Getting Me Anywhere. I'm Stagnating With These Guys." They Were Getting Drunk And High Every Weekend. I Got Out.

There Are Guys, The Weekenders, Who Can Go Out And Get Loaded And They're Having Fun And Partying - Which Is A Term I Deplore, Partying - And It's All Recreational And They're Having A Ball. I Never Had That. It Was Never About Recreation. Not. Ever. That Was Never My Motivation. Not Once!

France And The Whole Of Europe Have A Great Culture And An Amazing History. Most Important Thing, Though, Is That People There Know How To Live! In America They've Forgotten All About It. I'm Afraid That The American Culture Is A Disaster.

You Do A Movie, Depending On The Character, There's Some Degree Of Makeup Involved, Especially When You're Playing A Vampire And You're All White And Kind Of Dead. Sleeves, Regarding Costumes, There Are Generally Sleeves, Which I Appreciate. I Think We All Do.

I Was Angry And Frustrated Until I Started My Own Family And My First Child Was Born. Until Then I Didn’t Really Appreciate Life The Way I Should Have, But Fortunately I Woke Up.

There Are Necessary Evils. Money Is An Important Thing In Terms Of Representing Freedom In Our World. And Now I Have A Daughter To Think About. It's Really The First Time I've Thought About The Future And What It Could Be.

My Daughter Was Asked By A Little Old Lady In A London Hotel Restaurant What Her Daddy Did. She Answered, “he’s A Pirate” - I Was Very Proud Of That Answer.

They Tell You To Be Careful Because Maybe You Don't Want To Meet Your Heroes. I've Met Pretty Much Every One, And I've Never Been Let Down.

It's Important To Keep Challenging Myself And Try To Come Up With Some New Face Every Now And Again.

The Funny Thing Is You Oddly Don't Really Say Goodbye To All The Characters You've Played. There's Like A Chest Of Drawers In Your Head That You Can Always Access. They're Always Around. I'm Not Sure If That's Healthy. But They're All There.

My Recipe For Success Is Chance, Basically. Just Luck. It's A Miracle That People Still Hire Me After Some Of The Stuff I've Gotten Away With. Honestly!

Tomorrow It'll All Be Over, Then I'll Have To Go Back To Selling Pens Again.

This Is A Rumour-filled Society And If People Want To Sit Around And Talk About Whom I've Dated, Then I'd Say They Have A Lot Of Spare Time And Should Consider Other Topics... Or Masturbation.

I Realized That It Was Great To Have A Job, But It Didn't Have Anything Remotely To Do With What I Was Striving For, So Why Was I Doing It?

I Literally Went From Being Unable To Play My Rent To Being On A Plane The Next Day, Being Paid Peanuts.

And It Hurts So Much To Want Something You Can't Have.

It's An Odd Thing When There Is A Fan Page For My Daughter Who Is Not Yet 13.

People Get Famous Now For I-don't-know-what. People Have Reality Shows Because They're A Hollywood Socialite, And These Things Become Very Successful And They Generate A Shitload Of Money For The Company. And It's Multiplying, To Where You're Literally Looking Into Your Next Door Neighbor's Bathroom With Reckless Abandon. It Is Like Watching A Fire. You Can't Take Your Eyes Off Of It.

I Never Wanted To Be The Guy People Looked At. I Felt I Could Only Be Myself When I Was Alone, That I Turned Into Some Kind Of Novelty. The Only Way I Could Get Through That Time Was To Drink. I Poisoned Myself With Alcohol For Years But I've Never Been Into Drugs In The Way It Was Sometimes Made Out.

School's A Weird Thing. I'm Not Sure It Works.

It's A Great Honor That Something That You Took Part In Creating Becomes This Forever Object.

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In Terms Of It Being A First Screenplay, Literally, My Hat Is Off To Him [wally Pfister]. I Didn't See Any Virgin Blather In Screen Direction, Or Anything Like That. It Was Just A Wonderfully Executed Piece, And A Complicated One. The Mathematics Involved In Putting This Film Together, Between Jack And Wally, And The Great Support Of Alcon, It Was Not A Easy Little Operetta.

As Soon As We Fall In Love And We Realise We've Met The One The Rest Of Our Lives Can't Come Soon Enough. It's Not Like You're In A Rush To Get To The Finish Line, You're In A Rush To Feel And Experience Everything And Then Do It All Again.

Falling In Love

You Could Make An Analogy To A Security Guard Who, Three Weeks Prior, Was Mowing Lawns For A Living. The Second He Puts A Uniform On And That Badge, He's A Man. I Imagine The Majority Of Us Have Felt The Wrath Of The Over-zealous Security Guard Guy. Is There Something Lying Dormant In The Man, That's Waiting To Be Pumped Up With That Kind Of Power? I Don't Know. Does It Reveal Him? I Don't Know. Does It Change Him? I Don't Know.

Am I A Romantic? I've Seen 'wuthering Heights' Ten Times. I'm A Romantic.

I Was Always A Fan Of The Great Old Spaghetti Westerns, The Sergio Leone Films. But The One That Always Sticks With Me, That I Just Thought Was Brilliant And Perfect Is "cat Ballou." Lee Marvin In "cat Ballou."

A Dishonest Man You Can Always Trust To Be Dishonest.

I Had Never Experienced Anything Like The Response I Got From People For Pirates Of The Caribbean, Where You Meet A 75-year-old Woman Who Had Seen Pirates And Somehow Related To The Character, And Then Five Minutes Later You Meet A Six-year-old Who Says, 'oh, You're Captain Jack!' What A Rush. What A Gift. That Was The Challenge With Wonka, Too--to Be, In A Sense, Like Bugs Bunny. I Find It Magical That A Three-year-old Can Be Mesmerized By Bugs, But So Can A 40-year-old Or An 80-year-old. It's A Great Challenge To See If You Can Appeal To That Huge An Age Range.

You Do The Work And You Want People To See It; But, Um While I'm Doing The Work, The Result Doesn't Matter At All To Me. Ultimately, I Don't, I Don't Care Whether The Film Is - You Know - Some Big Giant Box-office Bonanza And I Don't Care If Its A Complete Flop. To Me, When A Film Gets Made And It's Actually Finished It's A Success. They're All A Success In Their Own Way.

Here I Was Going To Work With Pacino Thinking, "i'm Not Going To Get Lucky Twice. There's No Way. This Guy Is Going To Hand Me My Ass." He Looks Like The Kind Of Guy Who's Going To Hand You Your Ass. It's Al Pacino.

There's A Drive In Me That Won't Allow Me To Do Certain Things That Are Easy.

Any Man Who Had To Carry A Child Would Cave In Around Month Two.

The Challenge For Me Is Still To Do Something That Hasn't Been Beaten Into The Movie Going Consciousness. Otherwise What Am I In It For?

Better To Not Know Which Moment May Be Your Last. Every Morsel Of Your Entire Being Alive To The Infinite Mystery Of It All.

[jack Sparrow]'s A Blast To Play. I'll Be In A Deep, Dark Depression Saying Goodbye To Him. I'll Keep The Costume And Just Prance Around The House, Entertain The Kids....i Mean, At A Certain Point, The Madness Must Stop, But For The Moment, I Can't Say That He's Done.

I'm A Dumb-ass, And I Poisoned Myself For Years. Now I Understand Things Better.

Success Doesn't Change You... It Reveals You

My Experience With Sondheim Has Been Nothing But Glorious, Especially For A Guy Who Doesn't Sing.

What Happens To Me When I Read A Script, When Something Grabs Hold Of Me, I Start Getting These Flashes Of People Or Places Or Things Or Images.

I Was Always Fascinated By People Who Are Considered Completely Normal, Because I Find Them The Weirdest Of All

If I Can Avoid The Mirror When I Brush My Teeth In The Morning, I Will. I Find Security And Safety In The Most Profound Degree Of Ignorance. If You Can Just Stay Ignorant Of Almost Everything You'll Be Ok. It's Fine To Stay Informed And Look At Things, But To Judge Things Will Bog You Down.

The Problem Is That Everybody Treats Teenagers Like They're Stupid.

No One Wants To Go Out Mid-sentence.

The Killing Of Everyone Was The Easy Part, The Most Difficult Part Was Lathering Them Up And Shaving Them, That's The Part That Freaked Me Out The Most.

I've Always Enjoyed Hiding Behind These Characters. It's A Strange Thing, You're More Comfortable As A Character Than You Are In Life. I Could Stand Up In Front Of, It Doesn't Matter How Many People, As A Character. But If I Had To Do It As Myself And Give A Speech, I Would Be Liquid.

It's Funny What [producer Richard Zanuck Said About Even Though You Can't Quite Place When The Book Or The Story Came Into Your Life, And I Do Vaguely Remember Roughly Five Years Old Reading Versions Of Alice In Wonderland, But The Thing Is The Characters. You Always Know The Characters. Everyone Knows The Characters And They're Very Well-defined Characters, Which I Always Thought Was Fascinating. Most People Who Haven't Read The Book Definitely Know The Characters And Reference Them.

If There Is Any Message To My Work, It Is Ultimately That It's Ok To Be Different.

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The Only Gossip I'm Interested In Is Things From The Weekly World News - 'woman's Bra Bursts, 11 Injured'. That Kind Of Thing.

I Started Pulling Gags On Al [pachino]. That Was The Moment I Realized That He Was Absolutely Out Of His Mind. I Mean That He's Certifiably Insane. I Wouldn't Spend A Night In A Room Where He's At.

There Come A Time, When Good Man Must Wear Mask.

I've Thought Of Doing Many Things In My Life, Under The Influence Of Life, And I've Never Actually Thought Of Straddling Two Carriages While They're Moving.

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