Only in the fact that I was kind of a science wonk in the '50s. You know, won a lot of science...
Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.
We are game players. We are still children inside. If people want to have a good scare, if they want to see Hannibal, and I supply a need for that in this particular role, that's good.
Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.
It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.
I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.
I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.
I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.