Few Years Ago I Did

The Thing That Really Breeds Career Longevity In This Profession Is Doing Good Work. You Can Make $20 Million A Movie, But Does That Mean You'll Still Have A Job When You're 60? It's A Profession That Eats People Up And Wants Constant Turnaround, So You Have To Dedicate Yourself To Learning And Making The Most Of Whatever Gift You May Have.

I Have Totally Hitched My Wagon To The Horse Of Storytelling, And The Idea That None Of Us Know Why We're Born, Or Why We're Gonna Die, Or What We're Planted Here, Or What's On The Other Side Of The Galaxy, Or When Time Began, Or When Time End. The Whole Nature Of Reality Is Pretty Up For Grabs, Really.

Alejandro Amenábar Has A Unique Way Of Approaching Movies And Thinking About Something Which Was New To Me. It Was Different. I Have A Lot Of Respect For Him So I Just Took A Gamble.

The Experience On That Movie (dead Poets Society) Was, For Lack Of A Better Term, Life-altering. Peter Weir Has A Unique Talent For Making Movies That Are Intelligent But Also Mainstream. I've Never Been Terribly Successful At Doing That.

I Don't Have A Lot Of Experiences Like This Where Every Time I Thought I Had A Good Idea It Was Totally Wrong. I Had To Give In Completely And Just Try To Make The Movie Alejandro Amenábar Was Trying To Make.