A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.
I can think of films that I’m producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
If you go to YouTube and look up ‘grief’ you can find them and it’s just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It’s like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person.
But I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
There are different reasons to make movies.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
I like doing movies with kids in them, and you’re explaining things. They’re teaching you and you’re teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
I’d like to do a romantic comedy.
I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that’s what I’m always looking for, a director that’s going to help me go places I’ve never been before.
Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else’s part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.
I would like to direct.
It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you’re a man or a woman, you’ll do whatever you have to do to get it.
I’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I’m not always happy with that.
I’ve been working for many years and I think I’ve managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
I’ve not made a career of being physical in my movies, but I love sports. I’m a very physical guy.
I’m an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I’m allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.