We All Have This Fantasy Of Finding

When You Do 'before Sunset,' You Know While It's A Limited Audience, There Was A Very Small Group Of People That Love 'before Sunrise.' You Feel A Certain Pressure To Make Sure That You Uphold A Level Of Quality That Has Been A Bar. You Set A Bar And You Have To At Least Match It.

Years Ago I Was Going To Play Chet Baker In Another Movie And I Really Felt Drawn To That Character And The Script Is Good And I Met With Robert And We Seemed Simpatico And We Developed. But I Had A Real Passion For That Role And That Brought Me Deep Into That Film 'cause I Got The Sense That Robert Budreau Was Going To Really Let Me Be Creative Inside This Part.

Well, There's A Great Marlon Brando Quote That To Do Something Well You Have To Spiritually Marry Your Director. You Have To Be Making The Same Movie They Are In That You Have To Try To Help Their Imagination Be Better, And More Full, And More Fully Realized, But You Can't Have A Different Imagination Because Then You End Up - And You See This A Lot In Movies - Where It Feels Like They Were Making Five Different Films.

One Of The Things I Can Do Is To Try To Put Myself In Different Kinds Of Movies And That Kind Of Subtly Changes My Work. By The Time My Obituary Is Written, I Want There To Be A Great Western And A Great Comedy.

It Was When I Was On The Set Of Dead Poets Society.there Was Actor,his Name Was Norman Lloyd. One Day He Took Us All Aside And Said, "you Guys Don't Even Understand What A Powerful Experience You're Having. You Don't Really Understand What A Gift This Is." We Were Going, "what Does He Mean?" It Was That Really Wonderful Opportunities Aren't To Be Taken For Granted. I Often Found That It Had Embedded Itself In My Memory.