Breakfast Club Was Great Because

I Went And Saw Him [ John Hurt ] Here In L.a.he Did A One-man Beckett Show Of Krapp's Last Tape. I Went Back And Saw Him Afterwards, And What An Actor He Is. He Is So Gifted.

It Was An Audition Process After Breakfast Club, And I Wasn't Really Sure I Wanted To Do The Movie. There Was A Bigger Role That Rob [lowe] Was Already Set To Play, So The Role They Wanted Me To Audition For Was Alec. [director] Joel Schumacher... This Is Back In The Days When You Could Trick Me With Things Like This. He Goes, "don't You Think You Can Play It?" And I Go, "okaaaaay." So Then I Did It For All The Wrong Reasons But I Don't Think I Would Fall For That Again. Who Knows. I Might.

[kevin] Costner Said, "you Don't Have To Do That... This Is A Wide Shot, So You Can Calm Down."

There Were A Few Things That, In Rehearsal, Any One Of Us Might Try. [john] Hughes Would Go, "i Like That," To Me Spitting Up In The Air And Catching It In My Mouth. It Was Just Something I Did In A Rehearsal And Molly [ Ringwald] Went, "ewww." And John Went, "can You Do That Again?" And I Went All Day Long, And He Was Like, "okay, Let's Do That."

You Can Do Crap Work In A Big Movie, And It Does Good Things. You Can Do Great Work In A Movie No One Sees, It Does Nothing. That's The Way It Goes.