I knew that the movie would be something that was very different. And as a result of The Usual Suspects, I think that Hollywood's perception of what I can do has changed. He told me that I had done good work and that now it was time to make the right choices in terms of the characters I play and the movies I get involved with. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.
Movies are silly.
Even his big brother, Alec, responded with incredulity upon hearing about the Shore project. I'd go to his movies and be on the floor of the aisle, convulsing with laughter. She just didn't get it. But Bio-Dome was whack. Baldwin interrupts his comments to take a couple of calls on his constantly ringing cellular telephone, stomping off to engage in an argument about some wrinkle in the scheduling between a meeting in New York and another in Los Angeles, before returning to his seat and turning his phone off.