Bad Guys Don't Think They're

People Are In Denial All The Time, Hiding Things. If I Tell You A Racist Or Dirty Joke And You Laugh, You're Telling Me Something About Yourself, Which You Don't Want To Reveal. Accessing That Hidden Side Is What Good Acting Is All About. And There Are Only A Handful Of People In The Entire United States Who Interest Me As Actors, Who Surprise Me. Even People Who Write About It, Don't Know Anything About Good Performance. At Least When You Work At General Motors, You Know Something About Cars.

Bad Guys Don't Think They're Bad Guys. Hitler Probably Thought He Was A Wonderful Guy Doing Some Wonderful And Righteous Work For Germany.

If It Bothers Me On The Page, I Don't Do It. If It Attracts Me On The Page And Moves Me, Makes Me Think A Bit, Makes Me Laugh, Makes Me Cry, I'm Interested In It. If It's There On The Page, It Means It's There And Up To Me To Bring It Out. I Have Done Some Films Along The Way That Have Been Screwed Up And Not As Good As They Read. Some Films That Are Not That Good On The Page Turn Into Good Movies. So I'm Fallible Is What I'm Saying.

You Can Have Immediate Regrets, But If You Look At Stuff And Say, 'things Happen For A Reason', There's A Fatalistic Thing About It. Something Will Happen That Will Justify It In Some Way

Just Five Years Before That The Russians Were Our Allies