I`ve heard people say you have to love the characters you play. I don`t feel that way. I`ve played a lot of people that I don`t love at all. What`s important to me is to try to make them real.
I worked for four days on JFK but it changed everything. It led to A Few Good Men, The River Wild, Murder In The First and Apollo 13. It was definitely a turning point.
A long time ago, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a pop star. Then I started taking acting classes. I moved to New York when I was a teenager, and really wanted to be a serious actor. I wanted to do off-Broadway, I wanted to do [Anton Chekhov], [William S...