Actually, The Person I Related To Was

I Want To Be Interesting In An Interview Just As Much As I Want To Do Well In A Part.

We Were Doing Scarface Many Years Ago...and I Remember Having My Coffee And Looking At The Beach, The Surf, And I Saw A Hundred People Looking Out Into The Ocean. I Thought, What's Going On? Did Some Whale Get Washed Up To Shore? So I Stood Up On The Table To See What It Was, And It Was The Director, Brian De Palma, Standing There Alone By The Surf And They Were All Waiting For Him. And I Never Forgot That Because It Represented To Me What A Director Is, What A Director Does.

Whether He's Doing Great Acting Or Not, You're Seeing Somebody Who Is In The Tradition Of A Great Actor. What He Does With It, That's Something Else, But He's Got It All. The Talent, The Instrument Is There, That's Why He Has Endured.

The Actor Becomes An Emotional Athlete. The Process Is Painful - My Personal Life Suffers.

I Come From The South Bronx - A True Descendant Of The Melting Pot. I Grew Up In A Really Mixed Neighborhood; It Was A Very Integrated Life.