I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in them - gruesome stuff. I had them all around the house, and if someone couldn't relate to it in some artistic way and instead just said "Yuck," then there probably wouldn't have been anywhere for us to go.
Richard GereIn the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.
Richard GereThings come out of nowhere, and you start evaluating the director, the cast, and all those other things going into it.
Richard Gere