Johnny Depp on Marlon Brando

You talked how difficult it was and I've always wondered about how you have to dredge up these experiences like left right and center to play and how it affects you in your life and how you can do that and so that was painful but you had another experience with a person who was also kind of a little odd and Marlon Brando and and and who was a yeah and that's less painful because Marlon I know you love Marlon and and I still do and I'm still very close with the family and Marlon became again like Hunter although he didn't make me shoot a nitroglycerin propane tank but Marlon Marlon and I met over the phone because I wanted to do Don Juan DeMarco with him and um thank you so we met over the phone we spoke for three hours on the telephone I was in New York he was in Los Angeles I went back the next week he invited me for dinner we sat we talked and it was we we we connected on many levels uh especially the fact that no one wants to be a novelty um but one of the things that happened was we I asked him about uh there was a quote by William Soroyan that it's the basically it's a quote it's a preface of uh in the time of your life the play which the play I I don't read the play read the preface it it's something that had touched me in a large way like a philosophical like a way the way to live your life a real roadmap as to live your life and so I asked him about it and he said yeah he knew you know and uh so he said how well do you know and I so I began to recite it because at that time I had memorized it and so I began to recite this preface in the time of your life and I got to a certain point and he finished it oh verbatim and I was somewhat stupefied I said that's incredible I pulled out my wallet I said I've carried this this dog-eared thing that I'd ripped out of a book I've carried this for years on my wall and he said hang on a sec but he and he got up and he grabbed a frame that was just by his bed and he came to me and he showed it to me and he had a very similar dog-eared uh folded uh well well used uh version of it was it was the same thing that he had carried in his wallet for all those years so there was this he understood me very well instantly and I understood him and I was very lucky to become so close with the man yeah he he said to you when he asked about how many films you did and in terms of thinking about characters yeah that was that was that was quite a moment because that's one of those things that's seared onto your brain forever you know and you know that the the moments before you become smoke it'll come to you he asked me uh how many films uh john either called me john or johan it was very rarely johnny and he said how many films do you uh average per year i said i don't know maybe two or three no that's too much says well why is that too much and i said because we only have so many faces in our pocket we only have so many faces in our pocket you've had a lot of faces and and i want to spend the last few minutes going through some of the faces unfortunately because of my madness i feel like there's still a lot of faces in my pocket