Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes – even when you’re working with fantastic talent.
I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It’s just natural to me, maybe because I love sports.
I’ve never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.
I’ve done many different movies in many different contexts.
I’ve always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.
You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you’re going to do some of the action things.
I try to teach my kids to be open.
I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we’re living in.
I think I’m a romantic person, yeah.
I’m in my 60s now, and just running almost 50 meters with explosives going on, it was kind of like, “Oh, my god! What am I doing here?”
It is just a very freaky experience when you go to the movie theater and you see it for the first time. In close-up you see those eyes. There are little touches here and there that I recognize as myself. The process is fun.
Sometimes I am just playing the character. I will move out of the way of the microphone, and they will have to tell me. Because I am moving around a lot. I am performing the cat. The animators look for that material, to see if they can put it back into the movie.
As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him ‘bigger than life,’ as the Americans say.
I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.
Movies serve many purposes, and I’ve visited many of those genres, from the most light, frivolous comedy that is just trying to make you laugh, to movies that explore the most complicated side of the human soul. As an actor, I play all of those things, and I still like it.
Every time, I reaffirm in myself that the more comfortable you are, the less you are creating. You have to feel a little bit of pain in the creation.
The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.
It’s a character that I always found really likable. I’m fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.
You can change a person in their exterior aspects, but the soul remains, it still is there, and especially if that person has been changed involuntarily.
When you’re feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.