The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department. Matt Dillon More Quotes by Matt Dillon More Quotes From Matt Dillon Acting is very competitive. There are few good scripts out there and the ones that are good are very competitive. You look at your options and often times they're not too appealing. Matt Dillon scripts acting looks I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that. Matt Dillon play mean people It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood. Matt Dillon childhood growing-up home Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can. Matt Dillon suggestions asking advice I like conflict, drama's conflict and if you don't have that in the character it's really not a worthwhile role to play for me. Matt Dillon play character drama Well I can tell you that for me generally speaking that I think things that I deal with are all to do with not accepting things, not excepting life on life's terms. My life becomes a lot easier when I'm willing to just accept. I don't have to like circumstances as they are, but I have to accept them and that's where I always seem to get thrown, when I try to will my way instead of accept things the way they are. Matt Dillon trying way thinking Racism was just a tool to deal with frustration and pain and that people are in denial about the way we feel and desperately trying to control their environment the way their lives are. And ultimately their scapegoats aren't going to make them feel better, it's just going to increase hatred and the problem gets worse and worse. Matt Dillon frustration pain feel-better I look for really great characters. I say great because as long as they're really good, there's something you can do. And really good storytelling. And when people ask me what the story is, I say it's really several stories really. They're intermeshed. Matt Dillon character long people It's really nice to be able to do something that you've never done. I think that's the gift of being an actor because I get to play a cop, a racist cop and I've never done that before. It's nice to inhabit these other worlds especially when you get to work with great actors. Matt Dillon other-worlds nice thinking It's important to air your concerns and fears with someone you trust. When you're honest about how you can change and grow, and where your weaknesses are, then you open the door for improvement and change. Matt Dillon important air doors As an actor, you can't be off the market for too long. Matt Dillon actors long I don't like movies where everything happens fast. I like the buildup, the obstacles, the mystery. Matt Dillon obstacles mystery happens I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor. Matt Dillon great-day actors thinking I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class. Matt Dillon fun kids school I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion. Matt Dillon members buddhist cards I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded. Matt Dillon absent-minded absent creeps In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening. Matt Dillon contradiction holes knows It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle. Matt Dillon sensitive actors pressure I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often. Matt Dillon magic acting teacher I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon. Matt Dillon wagons dad white
