I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to stuff that's really on the other end of the spectrum entirely.
I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.
The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.
I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.
My dad used to work at IBM, so we used to get discounts on computers and stuff, and I did have a ThinkPad.
My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.
There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It's needing people who understand your work schedule.
I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It's a great profession if it's right for you, but it's memorizing the bones and the muscles, and I am terrible at stuff like that. Also, there's a lot of blood and gore involved.
I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.
I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.
That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.
Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.
But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.
Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.
There was so much great music around in the '60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.
The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.
I think the stuff that plays on the radio, the majority of it is for teenagers, which is okay. That's what pop radio is about. And some of it is great, and some of it is not.
When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.
