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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.

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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.

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Looking Forward

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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.

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.

I Went Through Various Stages In My Childhood, As We All Do, Various Stages Of Obsessions With People And Things. And I Did. I Wanted To Be The First White Harlem Globetrotter.

I'm All For Whatever It Takes To Get Wherever You Need To Get With A Character, As Long As You Don't Wipe It On Me.

Laugh As Much As You Breathe And Love As Long As You Live.

I Can't Tell My Self That I'm A Serious Actor. But I'm Serious Person.

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

Having Been Familiar With "drunk" Once Or Twice Myself, That Lick Just Came To Me - And Yeah, It Sounded Very Drunk, So I Presented It To Alice [cooper]. It Felt Like He Wrote The Lyrics In About A Minute.

You Gotta Be Careful: Don't Say A Word To Nobody About Nothing Anytime Ever.

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

I Think Everybody's Weird. We Should All Celebrate Our Individuality And Not Be Embarrassed Or Ashamed Of It.

I Am An American. I Love My Country And Have Great Hopes For It. It Is For This Reason That I Speak Candidly And Sometimes Critically About It. I Have Benefited Greatly From The Freedom That Exists In My Country And For This I Am Eternally Grateful.

I Wasn't Into The Lunchbox And Thermos Ski Slope, And That's Where I Was Going.

I Don't Know If You Remember Me, But I Used To Work Here In The Factory." Were You One Of Those Despicable Spies Who Every Day Tried To Steal My Life's Work And Sell It To Those Paraseeded Cop Cat, Candy Making Cads?" No Sir!" Then Wonderful, Welcome Back!

I Still Love The Layers Of Cinema Whether It's 35mm Or 16mm Or 8mm, Super 8 Which I Love. I Love The Grain. If I Had My Druthers I'd Film Everything In Kodachrome.

I'm Not Sure I'm Adult Yet.

I Was Really Intrigued By Them, Became Fascinated By Them Because They Were Asking Questions That Couldn't Be Answered Almost, Or Were Making Statements That You Couldn't Quite Understand. Like, 'i'm Investigating Things That Begin With The Letter M.' That Took Me Through A Whole Stratosphere Of Possibilities, And Doing A Little Research And Discovered That The M Is Mercury.

Asking Questions

When I See Someone Who Just Follows Their Dream And Succeeds, And Just Does Basically What They Want To Do And Doesn't Have To Answer To Anyone, Obviously Not Harming Anyone, That's Great.

You Can Close Your Eyes To The Things You Don't Want To See, But You Can't Close Your Heart To The Things You Don't Want To Feel.

I Can't Stand Not Being Able To Joke Around On Set, So I Have To.

At Last My Arm Is Completee Again Xd

I Don't Pretend To Be Captain Weird. I Just Do What I Do.

It's Impossible To Consider Myself A Producer. I Can Barely Produce An English Muffin, In The Morning.

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.

The Beauty, The Poetry Of The Fear In Their Eyes. I Didn't Mind Going To Jail For, What, Five, Six Hours? It Was Absolutely Worth It.

With Every Character You Play, As These Guys Will Tell You, There's A Part Of You Goes Into That In Terms Of The Ingredients Of Making This Stew. There's Most Definitely A Part Of Me In Captain Jack And Now, Fortunately Or Unfortunately, There's A Great Part Of Captain Jack In Me As Well. Basically, I Can't Shake Him. He Won't Leave Me Alone. He Just Sort Of Keeps Showing Up At Odd Times.

If There's A Message To Pass To People, I'd Say That It's Normal To Be Different From Others, It's Good To Differ From One Another, And We'd Better Look At Ourselves First Before We Start Criticising Someone Who Looks, Acts, Speaks Different Or Has A Different Skin Colour. I'd Like To Continue, Even At A Minimal Level, What John Lennon Had Started. If I Could Do As Much As A Bit Of What He Did, If I Could Contribute To The Elimination Of Hatred Among Us, That Would Be A Great Deal.

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.

Out On The Street, You Never Know What You're Getting, And Suddenly Two Days Later You're Beating Yourself In The Head With A Tennis Racket, Wearing A Towel, Quoting Poe. You Don't Want That For Your Kid. You Really Don't Want That.

Knowing That A Great Bit Of The Technology Is Active And Actually Happening, And That The Technology That We're Talking About, In Terms Of Uploading A Human Consciousness, Is Probably Not All That Far Away, To Be Honest. Indeed, It Will Happen. It's Pretty Close.

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.

I Would Say That He Has A Rather Limited And Uncreative Way Of Looking At The Situation.

I Am Doing Things That Are True To Me. The Only Thing I Have A Problem With Is Being Labeled.

Personality Types

I Was Definitely Never A Crowd Pleaser.

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

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