Zitat des Tages von Peter Riegert:
I apply the three gag rule, which is if I can read a script without gagging more than three times, then maybe I can say yes to this job.
As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.
I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.
There are movies I've seen or books I've read that attach themselves in a way that's greater than the ability to understand why. How do you explain that kind of connectedness?
I did 'Animal House' in 1978, then 'Local Hero' in 1983, and then in '88, 'Crossing Delancey.' And I realized that every three to five years, you need a big role to put you into the national psyche.
I've learned there is a void in adult stories across the land. Hollywood, whatever that is anymore, is losing their ability to tell those stories because they're not even thinking of that audience.
A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.
Setting a movie in an earlier age gives it a mythical quality.
I think when you're younger, as an actor you have much more of a notion that you are doing something to the audience. But with experience, I think you begin to worry less about what the audience's experience is and concentrate on working with the other actors, and that tends to let the audience do more work.
I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible.
I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.
You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'
Ease is something that I think many admire in other people, in sports or whatever it may be.
Sometimes you make a connection with a writer or a piece of material, and there's not much to ask.
When you get older, unless you're a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best.
