Love Goes Through Different Stages.

Is It Possible To Do Something That That Makes An Audience Uncomfortable, Challenges Them, Makes Them See Things They're Not Used To? Here In These Films [salome The Play And Salomaybe], I Have The Opportunity To Say Something About How I Feel About Things.

We Were Doing Scarface Many Years Ago...and I Remember Having My Coffee And Looking At The Beach, The Surf, And I Saw A Hundred People Looking Out Into The Ocean. I Thought, What's Going On? Did Some Whale Get Washed Up To Shore? So I Stood Up On The Table To See What It Was, And It Was The Director, Brian De Palma, Standing There Alone By The Surf And They Were All Waiting For Him. And I Never Forgot That Because It Represented To Me What A Director Is, What A Director Does.

When You Do These Things, You Sort Of Take The Journey. The Journey Is All About How I Can Interweave The Oscar Wilde Story, The Story Of Salome, The Play Itself And What It Is, What It Contains, And My Journey As An Actor, As A Director, As A Filmmaker, As A Person Struggling With Whatever I'm Struggling With - My Own Celebrity, My Own Life. This Is Semi-autobiographical In Terms Of My Commitment To This Kind Of Thing.

My Grandfather Was A Provider. Work, Any Kind Of Work, Was The Joy Of His Life. So I Grew Up Having A Certain Relationship To Work. It Was Something That I Always Wanted.

If You Have The Opportunity To Meet Someone As An Actor, It's Just Great Fodder For You. It's Wonderful Source Stuff That We Die For.