Straitjacket Quotes

(On being strapped in a straitjacket and thrown in a body drawer for The Jacket (2005)) "Those situations are very challenging, emotionally and psychologically, to find yourself in a confined space like that. I thought it would be interesting. It was very painful and I kind of encouraged that pain. I spent time in an isolation tank -- lots of time -- and I would let them leave me in the jacket and leave me in the drawer for a while."

When I was in my early twenties, I knew a man who has since died, who was older than me and also very crazy. He`d been in a straitjacket and institutionalized, and I found him very brilliant. When I would speak to him about writing, about life, art, women, he was very, very cogent - but he couldn`t lead his own life, he just couldn`t manage.