Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.
I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.
I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.
The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.
I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.
I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.