When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'
It's my job to write the best book I can each month and hand my scripts in. Everything else is beyond my control.
I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.
I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.
Once I'm committed to a role, I will go very deep into it, even when I'm not at work. I'll keep on studying the script, maybe 40 or 50 times. I might call a scriptwriter at three in the morning to say I've thought of something new.
When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.
I work a lot of things out on stage nowadays rather than writing them in big blocks.
I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.
I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.