Maureen Dowd: You can lasso a moving target from 12 to 15 feet away.
Sam Rockwell: Confirm.
James Brown was your biggest inspiration as a dancer.
That’s true, yeah.
Christian Bale threw a chair at you while filming “Vice.”
I wish that was true. That would be funny.
Christian Bale is scarier than Dick Cheney.
Not at all.
You speak with Crispin Glover almost every day.
I wish that was true.
Frances McDormand terrifies you.
No. She’s tough and soft at the same time.
As a native San Franciscan, “Vertigo” is your favorite Hitchcock film.
Maybe “North by Northwest” or “Psycho.”
You once faced up against Justin Timberlake in a dance-off in a club in West Hollywood and won.
In my dreams.
You’d like to curate a film series at the Metrograph of your favorite 1970s cinema.
Confirm.
You don’t want to live in L.A.
Yeah, it’s celebrity-crazy. It’s tough when you’re a struggling actor. There are some good spots there. I like L.A. sometimes. But it’s a lot.
You dated Drew Barrymore, your co-star in “Charlie’s Angels.”
No, we didn’t date. She dated a friend of mine, Justin Long. I set them up.
You still feel guilty for shooting Barrymore out of that window.
Mortified.
You liked being described in New York magazine as “lemurlike.”
[Looking at a phone to see what a lemur looks like] I don’t know. They look kind of sneaky.
