“I’m looking at this script, LBJ, as my whole career rests on the outcome of this, whether or not it becomes a movie. And Bryan Cranston is lurking in the shadows making what becomes a Tony-winning play. And we’re just thinking, he’s killing...
“Buddy, who, you all know as Patrick Swayze, he’s the one who trained me in the dances…. I spent days and days dancing with him….I was in heaven. So I just felt so plugged into the film that I sort of went past doing any character work, and I...
“I was working out the schedule for Into the Woods, and I sat Meryl [Streep] down. I said, “Meryl, I’m thinking that I’ll bring in the cast, we’ll work for about three weeks, and then we’ll have you come in, and then we’ll...
“It’s not how much money you have. It’s not what you’ve accomplished. It’s not the failures. Your character is everything. Everybody’s got a window of time when you’re relevant, and then your time ends and you’re out of...
“…and he said the difference between movies and television is with television. You should be able to turn off the picture and just listen to them talk. But with movies, you should be able to turn off the sound and watch it, because one’s visual and one is...
