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Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.
So it's always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It's hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.
My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
To me, Ghandi's a really inspiring character because he understood that in the structure of the world he lived in - that untouchability had to end.
I think what Ralph Nader did in this last election or what he has been doing with Greenpeace is amazing, knowing that he loathes the arena - he doesn't like talking - he's not very good at it.
Work can be hard sometimes - acting - the arts can be hard sometimes in that way - hard to give yourself that inspiration if you don't have a job.
That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
I sang the songs in The Doors.
I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
The things that are going on that really matter to us, and I identify myself as a New Yorker because I lived here ten years.
News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.
Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
I'm getting too old already.
If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
But HEAT - playing a psychopath and guys that spend a lot of years in prison - that kind of mentality - but having to do it in a very specific period of time - it was actually good for me because I didn't get sidetracked.
Kiss, Bang is out of the detective genre, and it fits in that mold, but I don't know if audiences are that familiar with the Raymond Chandler stuff. But this isn't a period one.
I'm very wary of news on television.
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
During Batman we had rehearsals for HEAT on the weekends and Michael Mann the director's great - he loves all the realism so we went into a bank once with flak jackets on under our suits and guns and the only person that knew was the bank manager.
I have a lot of musician friends, and I started hanging out with Sean Lennon a lot and his record is fantastic.
If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
Acting is very immediate.
Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.
I always had an interest in religion and a kind of sense of trying to reconcile ideas I had about art with these feelings.
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