What kind of scripts do you look for?
I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them. My parents acted. When I was a child, I grew up on the films they were working on in the '70s. And that was all that was being made. Certainly throughout Europe and South America, the rest of the world seems to embrace that ideology, but it's not really the American pastime. We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that. So I think the current political climate and that tragically we're in wartime, all of those things combined may make filmmakers turn more and more towards the truth now. Whatever simple grand turn that takes, I think it's an exciting time potentially in the arts.
Do you think you'll ever work with David Lynch again?
I do. I have a firm conviction that I will a few more times in my life. I feel like that with him more than anybody. And I'm currently experimenting with him on a project that he's playing around with using DV so that he has the liberty to do whatever he wants at any given time.
What's it like working with David Lynch?
It's incredible. It's absolutely incredible. I don't know whether you've interviewed Naomi [Watts] yet, but that's the thing we both get to talk about. It's our shared thing. I don't think I could play any of the parts I've played since “Wild at Heart,” particularly, without the luxury of having him as a friend and as a supporter. It's one thing to feel boundary-less emotionally, but with David, there are no boundaries even with story. There's no place you can't go without the extreme feeling [of being] comfortable with him, and I think it's the best place for an actor to be educated. Try everything.
Are you going to be in the fourth “Jurassic Park?”
Not yet. Is it going?
People keep telling us it's going to be completely different.
I wonder who will direct it. I wonder if dinosaurs will be in it. Dinosaurs are in the White House.
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