I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.
If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.
It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.
Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.
I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility.
Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.
I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.
My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.
What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children.
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
Paul Hackett: What do you want from me? I'm just a word processor!
I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.
Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.
I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
Just because you do not know how they look like, doesn’t mean you cannot see them.
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.
