A really, really bad one. |
a self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable. |
Actors are responsible to the people we play. |
Actors can't act alone. The only way to act well is when you know the other actor has your back. And these actors had my back and I hope they know that I had theirs. |
As a producer, as someone standing outside the film, we knew that the story wasn't going to shine (Capote) in the best of lights. What happens to him, and it's not pleasant, begins his downfall. This guy dies at 59, without writing another (long-form) book. So that's the story. We're just telling the tale of the events that got that ball rolling. |
As an actor, it's nerve racking. But when I'm wearing my producer hat, I think, 'Hey, this is great. If the film gets nominated, it will be seen by way more people.' |
Be proud, Mom, because I'm proud of you, and we're here tonight, and it's so good. |
Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly. |
But because of his intelligence, his wit and his insightfulness and his kind of all-consuming warmth, that would go away. |
but then the way he stands, the way he walks, all these things are going to affect all that stuff. |
Especially at the end when he starts showing the letters [from Smith], and you can see that he is really damaged, that this has changed him. |
Everything changed after that, ... He became consumed with the story, with success. He was never the same. Writing was never the same. |
He would probably be up here right next to me. I would say he would probably be critical because that was his life. And he'd probably point out all the things that were wrong, but he would also be happy that attention was being showered on him again. I think that was one of his character flaws. |
Her passions became my passions. |
His ambition and his agenda. There was a kind of a ruthlessness, a driven-desire thing that was just exhausting for me to play. You could never kind of relax into a scene and just not care about what you wanted. He was always on point. He was driven. |