Jeff Bridges in GQ

The one thing I took from this interview with GQ is that Jeff Bridges doesn't run away from his past. What I mean by that is that he actually brings up The Big Lebowski all on his own. No prompting. None of that crap about being typecast or he has moved on to other roles. He knows it is important to people so he brings it up. In this case he brought it up when referring to the scattering of his father's ashes."When we scattered my father it was like that scene from [The Big] Lebowski, " where Bridges and John Goodman get a face full of Steve Buscemi's cremains. "But then," Bridges says, "my mother said 'Look' and pointed up in the sky, and there in the clouds—and it's funny, when you tell this, it sounds kind of unbelievable, silly, almost—but we looked up there in the clouds, and there, in the clouds, was my father's face."And then, as we're scattering, doing the thing, one of the nephews says 'Look!' and points out to the ocean, and right offshore, maybe a hundred yards, a whale breaches. I've never seen a whale in Malibu, let alone a whale breaching.
"Shortly after that," Bridges says, "I was back in the bar in our parents' house, and I saw an old painting that I painted when I was 19 years old. And I'd painted that face in the clouds in my painting."