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| Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die. As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads. As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you. Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene. Everybody else has been seen, been proven. Everyone's really lazy in L.A. For some reason, I got a brochure from New York University. I got into that program. Having people in the business say, You do good work, is part of it, and so is knowing that it's true in my head, that I do good work. I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school. I don't know why everyone makes such a fuss about this guy. Sure, he freed the slaves, but that was in the '60s. What has he done since then? Why does he get a holiday? Where's my holiday? I don't remember ever thinking about acting. I don't even think I knew what it was. I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore. I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me. I get to play a killer next. I got into doing extra work. I liked it, and I didn't want to be a professional extra, so I joined the school theater. I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina. I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick. I had built stuff my entire life, so I was designing and building and taking drafting. I would watch plays and got real interested in performing. I had done numerous plays in New York and 14 or 15 films before I took a couple of years off. I was just a little worn out. I had gone to school to study marine biology. I just sat around and read a lot of Russian literature. I was soaking things up. I love feedback, I like to know when I hit something. Usually you know yourself, but you like to see that smile on the director's face. I sat in the middle of the stadium after the game and bawled my head off. I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about. I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that. I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible. I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid. I think you have to refill the well at some point. I was horrible in Boys Don't Cry, in my opinion, and I was hyped for it, and that's a weird thing to deal with. I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield. I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience. I'm an actor, coming from New York theater. I'm not the most talkative guy in the world. In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder. It's become so much about personality. A lot of Hollywood, they don't work on acting, necessarily. They don't see you're gonna fall, make mistakes. Mamet's was the only one you didn't have to audition for because he believes that anyone can be an actor with enough will. He gave me written questions. It took me about 10 days to find the answers. My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much. My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite. People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself. Riders would hang a bucket of cream on the back of the wagon and by the end of the day, it was butter. That's how rough it was. It would actually churn it. The first movie I remember seeing was Dr. Zhivago; I was probably 6 or 7. The first play I did was The Diary of Anne Frank, then I did some Ibsen and Shakespeare. The more you understand me, the less characters I can play. The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them. The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at. There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me. There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism. This is totally unfair. I didn't receive a single present, birthday card, or piece of fan mail. Everyone was so busy going to all the lectures and symposiums for Martin Luther King, people just forgot about me. That's the only explanation. What got me interested in golf was the beauty of it. It's a game of millimeters. It's like living moment to moment... it's a rare moment when it connects. What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way. Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me. |
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