The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.
People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.