Oh, I don�t know. I try not to make that distinction. I want to approach any character as a human being, first and foremost, but I know that�s pretty na�ve, considering that most things are written with a very obvious moral scheme � this is good, that�s not. I don�t think my idea of a hero would be the same as most people�s and I doubt I�d be anybody idea�s of a hero! So I guess that means I�m stuck playing villains. I must say I do a really good psychopath. Some people think I am a psychopath! I also get �cop� a lot. Same difference.
11. What's next for Daryl Haney?
Right now I just want to finish my novel and see it into print. I�ll probably end up publishing under an assumed name. It�s a really worthy book, not a genre piece, but the second someone with no imagination looks me up on the IMDb it�s going to be dismissed away. �Oh, this can�t possibly be any good! Have you see the things he�s done?!� I don�t understand why no one has that attitude about commercials. �Look at him! He�s a hack! He did an ad for Pepsi!� What, is an ad for Pepsi really all that better than Friday the 13th? I�m afraid it is in most people�s minds. Isn�t corporate culture just grand?!
In terms of film, I really don�t what the future holds. I may not have one, actually. I�m no longer that comfortable with my physical appearance, so acting�s kind of painful in a lot of ways. I hate getting older! I don�t care how narcissistic that is. You always hear people in their thirties and older say, �Oh, I�m much happier now than I was in my twenties! I�d never go back to that!� Well, I would. I think most people past their early thirties are spiritually dead. They never go out, they never investigate anything new, they just sit around the house with their significant others, still playing the same music they were listening to in their twenties, assuming they play music at all. Well, that�s not me. It�s not a matter of hanging onto something that�s gone. That�s just the kind of propaganda used to enforce strict guidelines: this is �young�, that�s not. Americans just love that kind of thing. We can�t bear ambiguity! But I�m still reading and listening and educating myself and, most important of all, I�m still thinking, and I�m sure that�s never going to change. And that may just render me unemployable as a writer. They don�t want you past a certain age anyway. This business is run by young people who were born middle-aged and who, ironically, think they�re experts in the matter of being young. Let me tell you, I�ve been around Keith Morris of the Circle Jerks and he�s over fifty at this point and younger in spirit than any movie exec half his age!
Anyway, I�ll probably just keep plugging away, possibly under a new name, but always with the hope that, one day, I can finally work on a good movie. Darren Aronofsky, I�m calling your name! And, thanks, Jason, for requesting my humble thoughts and a good list of questions.