Death Is Not My Best Subject.

It Is A Career Of Make-believe, Of Masks. We All Have Masks In Life.

I Enjoyed [playing Lawyer In From The Hip] As An Ode To My Dad. My Dad Went To Harvard And Harvard Law School, So He Had Some Friends That Practiced In Boston. So, There Was A Big Law Firm That He Hooked Me Up With The Senior Partner, Then The Senior Partner Hooked Me Up With A Young Lawyer Who Worked In The Firm. And The Young Lawyer Was Married To A Public Defender. So I Would Hang Out With Them, And I Could See Both Sides Of It, Those That Are Corporate Attorneys And Those That Help The Poor And The Disenfranchised.

I Was Living In New York, So I Just Rode My Motorcycle Up To The Set [of New Jack City]. So First Day Of Work For Me Was Kind Of Tough. I Get Ready To Get Off My Bike, And I'm Surrounded By The Security Guards, Who Were Louis Farrakhan's Nation Of Islam Guys. Who Had The Double-breasted Suits And Guns. And This Guy Goes, "where You Goin'?" And I Said, "i'm Here To Work." And They Said, "no You're Not." And I Said, "yeah. I'm Here To Work On The Movie." And They Said, "no You're Not. Get On Your Bike."

If You Read A Script Enough, Especially A Good Script - I Try To Read It 40 To 50 Times Before You Begin So You Get A Sense Of The Arc: What Happens Before, What Happens After, What Happens During.

We Tried The First Evening To Go Down Division Street And Rush Street, But We Couldn't Get In Anywhere Because They Didn't Like [ Emilio Estevez] Sneakers And They Didn't Like My Boots. This Was 1983 Or '84, So It Was Ridiculous. We Ended Up At A Jazz Club, Where You Go Downstairs And There's A Very Cool Place.