You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can’t put a round peg in a square hole.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a ’70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn’t anticipate the ending.

When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone’s part.

My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.

When I found out Cusack was involved, I liked that a lot.

Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they’re doing.

As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.

I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can’t put a round peg in a square hole.

You don’t do anything thinking that it’s going to stick.

Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads.

Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

I didn’t like some of the movies that were coming into me.

I’ve only been in one fight in my whole life… in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I’m a maniac.

So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.

The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

I think people like watching edgy things.

I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn’t crazy with some of the scripts I was getting – this was before Blow and Hannibal – so I decided to start my own production company.

So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.