The movie This Is Spinal Tap (1984) rocked my world. It`s for rock what The Sound of Music (1965) was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
I was a little worried about working with kids. I wanted to make sure we didn`t approach it tip-toeing around the stuff that would normally be funny, or make it gentle, rock-a-bye-baby bullshit.
[talking about his experiences early on in his career] It wasn`t about control. It was about the co-lla-bo. There`s great directors who treat actors like cattle, but I hated it, and I knew if I ever had a choice, I didn`t want to work with those guys. Who...