Robert Downey
Robert Downey
good hustle rest script terrible translate trouble
With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.
building certain characters confidence intricate words
Certain characters are real tough, intricate and multi-faceted, but it's really confidence building when it's your words being written.
agree bad enjoy happen might people
But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?
comedic drama elements forget light primarily serious
If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.
dynamite explain last loved napoleon next people seeing six son spent talking took trying weeks
I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.
almost good script terrible trouble
When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.
bother comparing
I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.
gifted incredibly
I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.
figure lunch shown tried
I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.
finger shotgun taste
(It's) like I've got a shotgun in my mouth, with my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of gun metal.
perfect thinks writes
It's a perfect fit. The way Shane thinks and writes is the way I talk.
cast crew developing mostly people producers
The onus is mostly on the director, and the people developing it and the producers and then the cast and crew and everyone else.
almost cool good liked people script specific stuck turned wonder
I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.
confidence eventually gives move moving power principle though
I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.