You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.- Dennis Farina
You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.
When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I do not think they can deny the towers were a part of New York.
When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.
What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.
Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.
Usually you are in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that is unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he is a good man.
This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.
This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.
There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.
The cast was huge, but I never saw anybody.
The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.
I have tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?
I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I do not know if I will ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.
I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.
