[st. Elmo's Fire] It Was

It's More Like The Inner Workings Of John Bender. He Feels Like He's Been Given A Short Shrift, He's Not Been Provided The Opportunities That Maybe These Other Kids Have. So He Feels Like He Begins In A Hole. And Instead Of Trying To Raise Himself Up, He Wants To Bring All Of Them Down. That's A Dynamic That's Pretty Universal. And So That Was The Real Foothold On That. It Wasn't Like, "oh, My High School Experience Is Like John Bender's [in St. Elmo's Fire]."

With Failure, You Just Try Again.

It's Like They Talk About How American Actors Have The Method And English Actors Just Kind Of Switch Views Faster. And John [hurt] Is Telling Me The Story As He's Sitting In That Witness Chair, And They're Putting The Final Touches Of Makeup On. And He Goes, "hold On A Second," To Stop His Story So He Can Do The Take. And He Does This Incredible Take. They Go, "cut." And Then Immediately John Goes, "anyways, So Alec, He's Playing The Chess." And I'm Just Going, "holy Crap." You Get Whiplash From Those Kinds Of Quick Turns!

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

Voice-over Stuff Is So Much Fun Because You Don't Have Hair And Makeup And Wardrobe. You Get To Show Up. And There Were Some Talented People, And We Don't Even Know Them. And They're So Gifted. They Can Do All These Accents And Voices. It's Really Fun To Do That Stuff. It's Really Like Actor Camp.