... quoted from Men's Health magazine. Ryan says:
"When my daughter was born, my first thought was, 'Oh yeah, I can do this.' It's not that I felt ready or that I knew exactly was I was doing. The exact opposite. I had a cactus in my 20s, and I killed it. A cactus! (But) the best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.' If you ask them, 'How are we actually pulling off this movie?' they'll just shrug and go, 'I have absolutely no idea.' I think that's a sign of strong character. I want to raise my daughter like that as well. I'm going to admit when I'm clueless, and I'm going to ask people for help when I don't know the answer to something.... We've gotten so addicted to knowing. It's the Google generation. We want the answer to everything right now. Every little piece of knowledge has to be instantly accessible. You can't even have a passing thought like, 'Wait, who sang "St. Elmo's Fire" again?' You just have to..." (Ryan rips his cellphone from his pocket and violently taps on the screen.) "John Parr! I knew it! Gotcha!"
"(Field of Dreams) is the best movie I've ever seen about being a father. I'm a blubbering, weeping, shivering mess at the end of that movie."
(About his infant daughter's inevitable sexual maturity) "We've had the talk already. Which frankly went right over her tiny head. The great thing about having the sex talk now is that she can't say I didn't do it."
"In my dad's dying moments, we were making him laugh. We were all in there together, me and my brothers, just joking with him. And of course we end up busting each other's chops. I recommended that the doctor raise Dad's dose of Dilaudid in order to make my older brother more tolerable.... I understand the idea of filtering pain through a prism of comedy."
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