I Didn't Go For The Needle At

My First Language Was Shy. It's Only By Having Been Thrust Into The Limelight That I Have Learned To Cope With My Shyness.

When You Do These Things, You Sort Of Take The Journey. The Journey Is All About How I Can Interweave The Oscar Wilde Story, The Story Of Salome, The Play Itself And What It Is, What It Contains, And My Journey As An Actor, As A Director, As A Filmmaker, As A Person Struggling With Whatever I'm Struggling With - My Own Celebrity, My Own Life. This Is Semi-autobiographical In Terms Of My Commitment To This Kind Of Thing.

The Interesting Thing About This Is I Don't Know What My Vision [ In Salome The Play And Salomaybe] Is Yet About. I'm Sensing Something And I'm Going Along With It. It Reminds Me Of A Painting, The Way Jackson Pollack Painted - Jackson Pollack, The Great, Great Artist.

It Was A Compromise. There Was A Sense That I Could Write My Own Memoirs, And Larry [grobel] Would Help Me Down The Line, Or Maybe Not, Maybe He Was Too Close To Me.

Pretty Soon I'll Start Worrying About [my Fame] Because [my Children] Carry My Name And They Have That Exposure. The Whole Thing Is, They Never Asked For It, That Kingdom.