A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
Acting is very immediate.
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
I always had an interest in religion and a kind of sense of trying to reconcile ideas I had about art with these feelings.
I have a lot of musician friends, and I started hanging out with Sean Lennon a lot and his record is fantastic.
I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
I think what Ralph Nader did in this last election or what he has been doing with Greenpeace is amazing, knowing that he loathes the arena - he doesn't like talking - he's not very good at it.
I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.
I'm very wary of news on television.
If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.
My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.
So it's always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It's hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.
That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
The things that are going on that really matter to us, and I identify myself as a New Yorker because I lived here ten years.
Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
Work can be hard sometimes - acting - the arts can be hard sometimes in that way - hard to give yourself that inspiration if you don't have a job.
Val is a fan of the popular 1970's rock band, Led Zeppelin.
Val graduated from Chatsworth High School in 1977.
Val has a daughter named Mercedes who was born in 1992 and a son named Jack who was born in 1995.
Val won critical acclaim for his performance as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's film entitled The Doors.
Val is 6' 1/2" tall.
Val wanted to turn down Julliard but his classmate at Chatsworth High School, Kevin Spacey, convinced him to accept.
During the sled riding scene in the 1988 film entitled Willow, Val can be seen wearing a black glove on his left hand.
While being let out of the metal cage during the filming of the crossroads scene in Willow, the rope holding the cage up broke and the cage landed on Val's foot, nearly breaking it. Later on in the film, Val can be spotted having difficulty walking.
Val co-authored the play entitled How It All Began and it was performed at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theatre in 1981.
Val ranked number 62 in Empire magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
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