Savant Quotes

I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I`m lucky. I`m just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable--for me--talent, which is being able to act. I do it without any confusion or restriction or ambivalence or hesitation, and it just flows, almost as naturally as anything in my life. So I don`t have a big burden about it. I`m not one of those `method` guys. I`m tired of the Actors` Studio bullshit that has ruined movies for 40 years. All these guys running around pretending they are turnips or whatever the hell they do. You just play the character as he really is. As a loudmouth, blowhard, coward, shithead. You know, it`s OK to be just who the guy is. One of the reasons that I`m not very good about talking about the process of acting is that so much of it requires you to be unconscious (of it) when you do it. When you`re aware of what you`re doing, it`s never very good. If you just let go and you`re in the scene, all of a sudden, it`s good. I can`t act; I swear to you, I feel like I can`t. I dread it every time I do it. I feel like the more I do it, the less I know. Which is a good thing.

I`ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I`m convinced of the opposite.