With Failure, You Just Try Again.

The Dark Backward. Bill Paxton Is In It With Me. Wayne Newton. James Caan. Adam Rifkin Wrote And Directed It. It Was Made A Number Of Years Ago And Very Odd. Not For The Squeamish.

It's Like They Talk About How American Actors Have The Method And English Actors Just Kind Of Switch Views Faster. And John [hurt] Is Telling Me The Story As He's Sitting In That Witness Chair, And They're Putting The Final Touches Of Makeup On. And He Goes, "hold On A Second," To Stop His Story So He Can Do The Take. And He Does This Incredible Take. They Go, "cut." And Then Immediately John Goes, "anyways, So Alec, He's Playing The Chess." And I'm Just Going, "holy Crap." You Get Whiplash From Those Kinds Of Quick Turns!

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

We [ With Emilio Estevez] Asked If We Could Take Some Things [ In Breakfast Club] That Weren't In The Shooting Draft, But From Earlier Drafts, "can We Maybe Use This?" And Hughes Was Very Amenable To All That. And There Was Some Stuff That I Liked, And I Said, "how About This?" And He Went, "well, We'll Check With Molly [ringwald]. Those Scenes Are With Her. And If She Likes It, Fine." So It Was Just Wonderful. It Was Great.

I Like Being A Villain. Villains Are More Exciting.