I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't.
As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.'
I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.
I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.
I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage
I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.
Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.
I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.
My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.
I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.
As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.
Forgotten was presented to me by the drama department at LWT as a concept and I found it immediately intriguing and very powerful. I was completely led by the power of the piece and its dramatic potential.
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.
I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.
I knew the story of 'War Horse' very well. I had read the book even before I did the auditions. I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.
I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.
