At Every Turn, When Humanity

Years Ago I Was Going To Play Chet Baker In Another Movie And I Really Felt Drawn To That Character And The Script Is Good And I Met With Robert And We Seemed Simpatico And We Developed. But I Had A Real Passion For That Role And That Brought Me Deep Into That Film 'cause I Got The Sense That Robert Budreau Was Going To Really Let Me Be Creative Inside This Part.

There's This Kind Of Incredibly Mistaken Idea That Because It's So Much Cheaper To Roll The Camera Than It Used To Be And It's So Much Easier To Accumulate A Ton Of Footage, That Then You Can Just Go Shoot A Ton Of Footage And The Editor Will Make Sense Out Of It. But If You Don't Have Something Deliberate Made, You're Not Gonna Save It In The Editing Room.

Alejandro Amenabar Is A Different Kind Of Director Than I Lot Of The Directors I've Asked For. He Really Asks You To Enter His Dream As Opposed To, You Know, A Guy Like Sidney Lumet Or Something Is Going To Ask You To Create A Character Almost Like A Documentary. He Wants You To Make The People Really Real And He's Going To Capture It Like A Documentarian.

Have This Chet Baker Movie Coming Out And In That Situation, I Went Down The Rabbit Hole Studying Chet Baker And Being Obsessed With The Period And The Music And The Relationships And The Dynamic, And Everything, Drug Addiction. There Was So Much I Wanted To Get At To Kind Of Get At The Truth. With Regression, I Was Certainly In Alejandro's [amenabar] Hands.

If You Don't Give Inspiration An Opportunity, It Will Never Arrive.