Paranoid Is What People Who

As Actors, We React To The Material That's Out There, And I Probably Just React More Strongly To Things That I Feel Will Have Some Social Value.

It's Intuitive In Terms Of When I Read A Piece Of Material Or I Hear About A Project. I'm A Writer, So I've Written Movies. I've Read At This Point Thousands And Thousands And Thousands Of Screenplays. So If Something Gets Me, Then I Don't Ignore That.

The Whole Thrust Of Theatre Is Different, Just Because The Writing Is So Much More Respected In A Play. Whereas In Movies - And Having Been The Writer, I Can Say From Experience - The Writer Is Lower Down On The Food Chain.

Being Known As A Writer Did Change The Relationships I Had With Directors. The Rap On Actors Is That They Always Want To Inflate Their Parts. But When Directors Know You Write Screenplays And Have A Different View Of Things, You Really Get Invited Into The Huddle In A Much Fuller Way. And Those Collaborations End In Friendships.

As For Poker, I've Stayed Away From That, Even Though When I Was In Vegas For Ocean's Eleven, I Would Get Accosted By These Guys Begging Me To Play. They Just Want To Take My Money. They See Me, Think 'actor' And See Some Easy Money.