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For Me, The Question Was, How Can One Take A Live-action Performance And Put It In The Parameter Of One Of Those Cartoons? How Much Can You Get Away With?

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For Me, The Question Was, How Can One Take A Live-action Performance And Put It In The Parameter Of One Of Those Cartoons? How Much Can You Get Away With?

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I Love People. And When You Love People That Much That You're Disappointed In Them Every Day, That Love Can Turn To Hate In A Flash Of A Second.

I Don't Trust Anyone Who Hasn't Been Self-destructiv E In Some Way, And Who Hasn't Gone Through Some Sort Of Bout Of Self-loathing. You've Got To Bang Yourself Around A Bit To Know Yourself.

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.

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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?

When Kids Hit One Year Old, It's Like Hanging Out With A Miniature Drunk. You Have To Hold Onto Them. They Bump Into Things. They Laugh And Cry. They Urinate. They Vomit.

Luckily I Am Very, Very Privileged And Feel Very Lucky To Be Getting Work And My Kiddies Are Not Feeling The Brunt Of Any Kind Of Horror That's Going On Today. So I'm Super Lucky.

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.

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.

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.

There May Be Something In The Fact That When I Was A Little Kid I'd Been Told Growing Up That We Had Some Degree Of Native American Blood In Us, I Always Found That A Point Of Pride. So, When It Came To Cowboys And Indians I Most Certainly Did Not Want To Be John Wayne. I Wanted To Be One Of The Indians.

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If You Really Take A Step Back And Observe People Who Are Considered Super-normal And Watch Them A Bit, You'll Realize That They're Actually Completely Out Of Their Minds! Most People Are Really Nuts, And That's Fascinating.

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

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

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.

They Stick You With Those Names, Those Labels -- ‘rebel’ Or Whatever; Whatever They Like To Use. Because They Need A Label; They Need A Name. They Need Something To Put The Price Tag On The Back Of.

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.

Thank God I Never Hooked On Anything. I Never Had A Monkey On My Back. I Just Wanted To Self-medicate, To Numb Myself Through Liquor. It's How I Dealt With Life, Reality, Stress, Change, Sadness, Memories. The List Goes On. I Was Really Trying To Feel Nothing.

Things Go Wrong For Me, All The Time, With Technology. I'm Not Familiar Enough With It, And I'm Too Old School A Brain To Be Able To Figure It Out. I'm Dumb. Anything That I Have To Attack With My Thumbs, For Any Period Of Time, Makes Me Feel Stupid. So, I Try To Avoid It, As Much As Possible, To Protect My Thumbs.

I Suppose Nowadays It's All A Question Of Surgery, Isn't It? Of Course The Notion Is Beautiful, The Idea Of Staying A Boy And A Child Forever, And I Think You Can. I Have Known Plenty Of People Who, In Their Later Years, Had The Energy Of Children And The Kind Of Curiosity And Fascination With Things Like Little Children. I Think We Can Keep That, And I Think It's Important To Keep That Part Of Staying Young. But I Also Think It's Great Fun Growing Old.

For A Long Time I Tried To Manage An Honesty And Openness About My Personal Life Because I’m Human And I’m Normal – Well, Semi-normal.

A Dishonest Man You Can Always Trust To Be Dishonest.

Kids Accept A Lot More, And They Buy It, Because They're Free.

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

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