hedgehog-goulash7: hedgehog-goulash7: Robert Downey Jr.: “I’ve seen the folks who the se
hedgehog-goulash7: hedgehog-goulash7: Robert Downey Jr.: “I’ve seen the folks who the second they hit their critical mass, they essentially shut the door on the story of their past, who they really are, and they become this narcissistic personality disorder version of what they thought they would want to get away from, whatever injury got them to having half of their drive being to get somewhere, because then they could no longer be seen as they see themselves. It’s really tricky to see it happen. It’s another thing to be put in check by people that I’m close to that sometimes are an accessory in a creative burst. I still have little pilot fish that want to overstate that or centralize that or make it about me. I’ve noticed more and more lately that, say, we’re in a writing session, and Act Three is in desperate need of a breakthrough, and I come up with the idea. I want to, occasionally, parade around and do my ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ paw-print stomp, and I’d say, ‘First of all, it’s nice to celebrate, it’s nice to be excited, it’s another thing to sully that with your own character defects.’ Worse still, it’s a shame to not see that it’s not true, because without the context – and that’s why I love partnerships – without the context of somebody who’s actually holding the entirety of what we’re looking at and what we’re doing and what we have to accomplish, rather someone who knows all the challenges inherent in Acts One and Two, and believes, even though we’re using a bookmark where the movie ends, where the final image is, that just because it works for now, it works for now because it’s comforting, because you believe you have an end. I’ve been noticing more and more lately how partnerships and small groups of well-matched people are all equally responsible, whether you’re the front man in the band or whether you’re just mixing behind the scenes. It’s awesome.“ Guy Ritchie: “Do I have any idea what the fuck he is talking about most of the time? No fucking way. He fucking rants, sounds very clever, and then I have to tell him: ‘Repeat that, but this time fucking speak English.’ ” Men’s Journal, May 2011 Aww - RDJ is just on another plane of existence, that’s all. -- source link