I Learned With 'the Beach' That I'm

Actors Are Steeped In A World Of Agents And Where The Next Job Is Coming From And What Are Their Expenses And What Is The Hotel Like. You Want To Take Them Out Of That World And Dump Them Into Another World, So That When You Meet Them On The Screen They Don't Seem Like The Guy Who Was In Two Others Movies That Year.

Once, A French Journalist Told Me That All My Films Are The Same. I Said, 'excuse Me? I Work Hard To Make Them Different.' What She Meant Was That In My Films There Is A Character That Faces Insurmountable Odds, And They Overcome Them. But I Thought That Might Be True, But You Need Certain Factors For Drama, And You Need To Overcome Them.

I Find My Own Pain And Others' Difficult To Tolerate, So I Always Want To Try To Shift Things So They'll Be Better. But In Doing That, If I Am Coming From A Place Of Ego, I Often Cause Harm. So It's A Struggle For Me To Set My Ego Outside And Find A Softer And More Compassionate Way Of Approaching Things.

I Was Brought Up A Very Strict Catholic And I Don't Practice Anymore Or Anything.

I'm Not A 'star Wars' Geek.