Bill Pullman

I did this play, 'Expedition 6,' that I worked on for three years in between other things. It was a good, interesting time for me because I trained as a theater director, and I went back, and we toured it around. ”

I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense. ”

Zabriskie Point' was a time when I was in a lot of change and flux, and these incredible visuals hit me like they had rearranged the organs in my body. The ending and the free-floating debris and everything is an image that burned itself in my consciousness. ”

I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television shows as 'the dad,' but that was Kryptonite to me. I was like, 'This would be the death of me. I'll be a cesspool of niceness.' It doesn't feed me. ”

I'm often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don't have that problem. ”

Stacy Keach was really fun to work with, and Henry Winkler was very fun. ”

As an actor, you're continually riding the waves of whether you're in or out, getting work or not getting work, and Kazan was really a guy who was condemned into not working and looking to go deep into someplace and just live inside his art. ”

Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered. ”

It's hard to explain to people how, if you're really capable of providing the right professional work environment, it allows you to get more personal. ”