Bravo Profile (2002) - Excerpts, Part 2

Johnny: I never had ambition, you know. I really hate that word, and it's so alive, that word ambition, and it's so much a part of the American kind of greed, you know, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme kind of thing. But, I always had a kind of hunger, a drive.



Lasse Hallstrom: (On Johnny and "Gilbert Grape") He's very loyal to the film maker, to the story. He really wants to get the story right and tell the story right. In reaching for that, I just love his technique, the low key approach. The search for honesty and emotional presence in each moment.



Lasse: I did notice that he seemed a bit down, kept more to himself. He didn't really socialize as much.



Johnny: One of the things that was probably bugging me on "Gilbert Grape" was the fact that I wasn't really clear on what it was all for. Um, what it was all about, Alfie, you know, just didn't know what it was all about in a way.



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