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I Got To Work With Robert Deniro Once And It Was A Strange Experience. Gwyneth Paltrow And I Were Doing Great Expectations Movie Together And We Were Complaining About What A Mediocre Film Experience It Was. Deniro Showed Up On Set And All Of A Sudden The Director Got Better, The Director Of Photography Got Better - Everybody Got More Interested And Excited. Deniro Isn't Waiting For Other People To Create The Environment That He Wants, He Brings It Along With Him.

My Job - And It's Really True - Is That It's Constantly Evolving And Changing. When I Was Doing The Chet Baker Movie I Was Obsessed With Playing The Trumpet, And To My Absolute Shock I Haven't Picked The Trumpet Up Since We Wrapped. It Was So Much Work. I Thought I Was Going To Keep Playing The Rest Of My Life, 'cause It Was Fun, It's Just A Lot Of Work. And It's A Really Unique Job That Exposes You To A Lot.

In Fact, I Think My Life Is Always Going To Be Difficult, Because I Am Trying To Do Something... "original" Is A Big Word. It's Kind Of Pathetic, But I Have To Love What I'm Doing.

I've Very Rarely Worked With Somebody That Had Such A Clear Idea Of What Alejandro Amenábar Wanted To Do And What He Wanted To Achieve. The Guy Is Incredibly Prepared. He Was Clearly Making A Movie For Himself And His Own Dream. I Just Tried To Be A Part Of That Dream. It's A Rare Opportunity.

Have This Chet Baker Movie Coming Out And In That Situation, I Went Down The Rabbit Hole Studying Chet Baker And Being Obsessed With The Period And The Music And The Relationships And The Dynamic, And Everything, Drug Addiction. There Was So Much I Wanted To Get At To Kind Of Get At The Truth. With Regression, I Was Certainly In Alejandro's [amenabar] Hands.