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Johnny Depp says he doesn't take method acting so far that seeing Doritos on set becomes a problem Ti West: "But I will say from the outside, to nerd out for a moment, the accessibility of all those characters is remarkable and instantaneous, and there's no pageantry to it. You have an ability to just like that" Depp: "I'm not playing Henry VIII and going to the craft service table looking for my giant pheasant leg and freaking out when I see Doritos because I'm Henry VIII, you know"

Johnny Depp says recording David Bowie's "Heroes" gave him a voice when he felt unable to speak publicly "We recorded Heroes because we ended up with two days off in Berlin on tour, and we went to Hansa Studios where Bowie recorded Heroes" "And decided to record Heroes there" "And so we did. We recorded the vocals in the same way that Bowie did, with microphones 20 feet apart and mad, you know. So that was a great experience" "And at the time, personally and emotionally, that song. It was a period where it was kind of a necessary element for me to sing that song at that time because I needed to say something and I was unable to really speak out there in the world" "So Heroes became my opportunity to speak"

Johnny Depp says Wes Craven filmed him rising out of the bed covered in blood for A Nightmare on Elm Street, but never used the footage "Something that wasn't in the movie was, it was me being kind of almost like being pulled up from an invisible thing, like Freddy or something, up out of the bed" "So I come up on this kind of elevator and I'm covered in all the blood and standing there" "We did that a few times, but I don't think Wes ever used that because the blood, I think, was effective enough"

Matthew McConaughey says a chance encounter at a bar led to his first movie role in Dazed and Confused James: "A lot of people don't know your story of how you initially got into this business. You were out drinking at a hotel bar when you met somebody. Take us back to that conversation. What was that like?" Matthew: "It was a Thursday night. And I go out to this bar and a bartender I know, and he's in film class with me, and he says, 'Hey, there's a producer at the end of the bar in town producing a film'" "I go down, introduce myself. Four hours later, we get kicked out of said bar because we're telling the stories too loud and had a few" "On the way home, I was in a taxi cab. He was riding with me to come drop me off. He says, 'Hey man, you ever done any acting?' I said, 'No.' 'Because you might be right for this part. Come to this address tomorrow morning, 9:30 a.m. Pick up the script'" "I show up at 9:30 in the morning, which is only like five hours later, and there's this script waiting for me with a handwritten note from this guy, Don Phillips. Had three lines" "I go work on those three lines for two weeks. I come back, I read for Richard Linklater, who was directing Dazed and Confused. I get cast in the part. Three lines turned into three weeks' work" "So, I got a nice part in a nice movie. Didn't know if it'd just be a hobby for that summer, one time in my life. I go back, I graduate college, I drive out to Hollywood, 2,000 bucks in a U-Haul" James: "The rest is history" Matthew: "There we go"

Matthew McConaughey says he hiked 14 miles to a monastery and spent four hours crying and confessing to a monk who finally answered, "Me too" "I just got famous after A Time to Kill. I got a lot of demons on my back. I'm feeling like I'm sinning of the mind. I'm not liking who I am, my thoughts, etc." "I get out of town. And I find this monastery out in Abiquiú, New Mexico. I hike 14 miles to get there down this dirt road. I say, 'I need to talk to someone. I need to confess'" "And I meet with this monk and we take a four-hour walk into the desert. And I am confessing, just letting everything off my back, tears coming down my face, snot coming out of my nose. He hasn't said a word" "I'm just confessing and I'm ready for him to lay the hammer down on me. We finish the talk after four hours. Sit down on this bench next to this chapel. Again, he has not said one word" "Finally, I finish my confession, man. And I'm crying. I'm waiting. I'm waiting for the condemnation. And it's silence for about 10 seconds. And I look up at him, waiting for him to... He smiles and he goes, 'Me too'" "I was like, 'Thank you. I thought it was just me'" "But that's something to remember to take the pressure off sometimes, man. When we feel like when we're in a funk that it's only us. We're the only one that's ever gone through that. We're not" "And just knowing that we're not the only one, that it is part of the human condition, and everyone's gone through that kind of sh*t at some time, just kind of lets us go, okay, there's a way on the other side of this"

Helius' Ichigo says Solana can't bring banks on-chain while everyone can see their transactions "Going back to my criminology days, you have Bentham who basically said, 'Hey, we can make the perfect prison where you have a giant watchtower in the middle and a circle around it, and all the cells face inward'" "Literally Eye of Sauron. You don't know if the watchtower is watching you, so you always behave as if you were being watched" "So crypto takes this beautiful idea of privacy and selective disclosure and then just puts it on steroids. Then Solana really pumps it because it's fast, it's scalable, people can actually use it" "And so it gets to a point where you have this auto-panopticon, where it's like a self-sustaining system of voluntary exposure, in which that watchtower has now become a ledger, it's become a dashboard, it's become your Twitter feed" "And we're basically monitoring ourselves and calling it freedom" "It's like, okay, well, if we actually want to bring finance on-chain, you can't bring banking on-chain if everybody can see it" "There's no way that a huge bank client will be like, 'Yeah, I want everybody to know that I sent 20 bucks to this person and I invested in this company'" "It just doesn't make any sense"

Helius' Ichigo says Solana could avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in annual token issuance under an inflation proposal that passed in August "A lot of the unlocks are behind us. So what's this continued high issuance actually doing? It's like, okay, it's adding unnecessary sell pressure" "When you have sell pressure, depending on which jurisdiction you're in, you'd have to sell to cover a portion of taxes" "For example, some places, the US, staking rewards are treated as ordinary income. So you get staking rewards, you're gonna have to pay taxes on that" "So you end up selling SOL to these centralized exchanges like Coinbase and Binance, who are competitors to Solana. We're pushing the price down, we're paying taxes" "And so when you have people like governments, centralized exchanges, and custody providers taking significant cuts of staking rewards, even just a small reduction in issuance can save us hundreds of millions of dollars a year" "And getting rid of that sell pressure, we get rid of that persistent downward price pressure" "It's not all about number go up, but at the same time, it's this whole psychological thing of, okay, if we have very distorted market signals and we hinder fair price comparison, what does that say?" "If we had a publicly traded company who is executing a small share split every two days, most people would be like, 'What the hell is going on there?'"

Tom Cruise says the rumors about how intensely he works are true “People that work with me, they know I expect a lot and I'm upfront about it. It's like, the rumors are true and do you want this?” Zach Baron: “But do you say that?” Tom: “Yes. If we're there, I'm like, trust me, the rumors are true. I'll be here before you” “What experience do you want? And I'm very open and it's not like we don't have a plan. We have scripts. We have plans. We're going through it, but I also feel the level of responsibility for everyone” Zach: “Do you feel like you're understood when you say this stuff, that people get it?” Tom: “There's things that I didn't say for many years. I know the people I work with, we all kind of feel the same thing. We want to do well. We want to understand why do things work? Why don't they work?” “When you start doing something, I'm an all in kind of guy, Zach. I don't know what to say. Life, I'm coming right at it. It's coming at me and I'm coming right at it. I'm 100%. I am not a halfway kind of person”