If This Is The Only Life, Then

I Was Being Generous. Gia Coppola Wasn't Even A Filmmaker At That Time, But I Asked Her To Do It, Because I Believed In Her As An Artist. And Because I Wanted A Woman's Take On The Material. The Book Palo Alto Is Very Male-centric, But Gia Carved Out A Bunch Of The Female Characters, And Brought Them To The Fore In The Movie. And The Project Was Richer For It.

You Take Advantage Of Your Position As A Famous Actor To Meet Women.

I Went To Nyu Graduate Film School And Met Pam [romanowsky], And After Doing A Few Things With Her I Thought She Had The Right Sensibility And That She Could Figure It [the Adderall Diaries] Out.

I Think All Great Comedies - Or At Least The Comedies I Like - It Has Some Of The Funniest Moments, But It Never Breaks The Spell For The Audience. It Never Pushes The Audience Away By Spoofing Itself Too Much Or Undermining The Characters Or Making Them Cardboard Or Flimsy. Everybody Is Really Trying To Do What Their Characters Believe In - And So Nobody Breaks The Spell Of The World, Even Though In Other Ways It's A Comedy And Very Funny.

If I'm Working On A Film, I'll Do Sit-ups For Before I Shoot. Like, 100 In The Morning Or Something.