I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.
I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.'
I started creating; Myself From The Inside Out & My God I Wish I Had Done It Sooner.
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
You know, I try to avoid Googling myself, but sometimes I slip up. Sometimes I just want to see how the world is viewing me on a particular day.
For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.
I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.
I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.
I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.
How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality?
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.
But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself,
I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.
There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.
