Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy
Andrew Thomas McCarthyis an American actor, travel writer and television director from Westfield, New Jersey. He is known for his roles in the 1980s films St. Elmo's Fire, Mannequin, Weekend at Bernie's, Pretty in Pink, and Less Than Zero, and more recently for his roles in the television shows Lipstick Jungle, White Collar, Royal Pains, and The Family...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth29 November 1962
CityWestfield, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?
I was so hung over for that whole movie ... I'm thinking, 'God, I got a headache. I am just dying here. I got to go lay down.' But on film it came across a certain way.
Like in 'Pretty in Pink' for example, people said, 'Oh, he's so sensitive and lovely in that movie,
So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.
The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.
I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.
It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.
And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.
I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.
So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time.
It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience.
In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film.
Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.
The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.