I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.
We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life.
Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?
I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.
Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.
We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world.
Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us.
It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.