-It's going to be the 20th anniversary of "Fight Club"?
-This month. -This month.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Can you believe that?
It's 20 years ago.
Does that make any sense at all? -None.
Because it means we were 19 when we made it.
-Exactly. Yeah, of course.
Do you ever watch it if it comes on TV?
-I do love that film.
I'm amazed by what David Fincher did with that film.
But I avoid it now because it only highlights the shape
I'm not in anymore. [ Laughter ]
-Here's some behind-the-scenes footage -- photos of you guys --
you and Brad going at it. [ Women cheering ]
-That actually -- but that actually is when I --
It's the first punch of the movie, and I hit him in the ear.
And he says, he -- Fincher came up to me and said, "Hit him."
You know, connect with him somewhere.
And I didn't know what to do.
And I hit him in the ear, and he says in the film, he goes,
"Ow! Why the ear?" [ Laughter ]
-Dude, that was real? -Yes, that was real.
-You boxed his ears. Wow, you hit him.
Look at you guys. You guys were babies.
-We were children. We were children.
[ Audience aws ]
-What a cute picture. -I know.
-What a beautiful picture.
-David Fincher -- a great makeup artist
as well as a great director.
-Exactly. He is. He is talented.
-It was very special.
-Speaking of special,
I'm gonna segue into "Motherless Brooklyn."
Congrats on this film.
This has got -- the work that you put into this.
First of all, let's just say, your acting is phenomenal.
You got great reviews.
"Vanity Fair," I saw, gave you a great write-up.
And "Rolling Stone" as well, said you're --
props to the movie and your acting.
But it's great.
But you produced this. You directed it. You wrote this.
When did you hear about this story first?
-Well, it's funny.
I read -- there's a wonderful novel of the same title
that I read around the time we were making "Fight Club."
So like 20 years ago.
-You've been working on this for 20 years?
-In a way.
I turned it into this sort of -- a '50s sort of
"L.A. Confidential" detective sort of a film.
-It does have that "Chinatown" type of vibe to it.
-Yeah. But the main thing that drew me to this book
was the character in it.
He is not your Bogart, Nicholson sort of detective.
He's a very, very unusual character
who has Tourette's syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder.
And this condition makes navigating the world
very difficult for him.
People treat him very badly. -Yeah.
-And he has talents that flow from his condition that make him
a kind of secret weapon
for the detective he works for -- Bruce Willis.
But that kind of part is kind of
what I tend to really like to lean into.
-There's not many parts like that out there
that you can just grab a script and go,
"I'll do that. No one is writing it."
So you had to do it for yourself.
-Yeah, I wrote it for myself.
-Yeah. Good. That's what you got to do.
That's what you got to do. [ Cheers and applause ]
That's what you do. -Right.
-Put the work in.
-But it was a great experience.
It's a big, New York, epic movie.