An action film? You get up on top of a firetruck and punch someone or a kill a guy.
Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.
Great shopping is really difficult in Vegas.
I always wanted children. I was lucky to find someone to have them. And it was probably better that I waited.
I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
I did a million things. I worked in an office supply store, I drove a school bus, I painted houses, I worked for a Mexican landscape gardening company.
I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
I don't quite get it. I guess that means that if you cut me in half with a chainsaw, I'll put your kids through school.
I don't think my parents know what I do.
I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.
I have a fairly happy family life. I think I'm a fairly supportive friend. I'm a good shopper.
I have a production company and projects I would like to do. I mostly lately have done these European art things that nobody sees.
I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.
I love my brother, but we don't see each other often.
I never talk about this business very much. I have so little knowledge of it. The theater, I know a little more about.
I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
I think it'll just go on... we should invest in cemeteries.
I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
I was always fine here, but I go back and work in Europe all the time, so I do get that balance.
I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.
I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.
I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.
I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.
I'll play my character younger than me, then at age 80, and I'll also play my own son. Something like me but stretched and pulled around in the face.
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.
I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.
I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.
I've had failures in the theater.
I've had great friends, but I also put in some effort.
I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
It never occurred to me when I was young how many lives you have. You can't imagine that in two years you may be a German talent agent living between Hamburg and Dusseldorf.
It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.
My father was a very contradictory man.
My father was very volatile. When I was a kid I was picked on a lot by my brother, and I think that anger stayed with me.
My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.
Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.
Oftentimes you end up writing. Some directors don't want any input. Some directors are completely at a loss. Some don't want any input and are completely at a loss.
Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.
There's a reason screens are only this thick.
There's the life I lived growing up, there's the life I lived at university, when we started our theatre, living in New York and being married.
We were just too inbred, we were too sick to travel to other addresses. We were upstarts, in our own world, only doing our own plays. We didn't have many friends outside our little group.
Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.
With my father it would have been just completely out of the realm of possibilty to say, You did that well. It just wasn't done. I wouldn't say it's wrong. That made me whatever I am.
You can blame your brother, you can blame your father.
You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything.
John starred in the BBC TV 10-minute long documentary on NYC's Chrysler Building. He also provided his personal film essay for the short.
John appeared in the TV commercial for Les cahiers du Cin?ma (France) in 2000.
John and his family reside in France and in 2004, they set up a second home in Boston, Massachusetts.
John won a second Village Voice Obie this time for Direction for Balm in Gilead in 1985.
John's favorite films include: The Battle of Algiers, The 400 Blows, Citizen Kane, The Conformist, This is Spinal Tap, High Noon and It's a Wonderful Life.
John is a big fan of singer Tom Waits and (oddly enough) rap artist Dr. Dre.
John has developed a great passion for Portugal, where he has filmed some movies recently. He also keeps a house here, as he co-owns a disco in Lisbon.
John and Nicoletta have two children together. Daughter Amandine born in 1990, and son Lowry born in 1992.
John briefly dated Michelle Pfeiffer in the late 80s.
John is of Croatian heritage.
John was educated at both Eastern Illinois University, and Illinois State University.
John was listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36.
John starred in Of Mice and Men (1992) with best friend Gary Sinise.
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