I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
— James L. Brooks
Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.
You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.
What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.
Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.
I'm big on research.
I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.
Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.
