I think I’ve become more relaxed throughout my career. I don’t feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don’t need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist.
Idris Elba is a grand actor. He’s very larger than life; he’s bigger than life.
Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I’m working with.
I just want to keep making movies that hopefully makes some kids smile.
I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene.
I never say never, but I haven’t been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.
I came out of independent film, that’s my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.
It may come as a surprise to people, but I’m actually quite boring and normal. What do I do? I read books. I drive my kid to school. I have lunch with my wife. I pick my kid up from school. I go home.
I do understand sometimes when actors say there’s no one to talk to, or you can’t react to, there’s truth in that, but for me, I’ve always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen.
It’s always exciting when you can go into a mode where you can be both spontaneous and choreographed. Sort of in control and out of control at the same time.
Film acting is one of the only industries where you’re criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it’s considered a quality and something to behold.
More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist – anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It’s the best form of entertainment, and it’s still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment.
One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up.
Without impending on your own personal choice, there are going to be those that wear the hat of religion and those that wear the hat of science. I still don’t really understand why they can’t wear both hats, because personally, I think that they go beautifully together.
I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people’s minds.
I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.
I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.
When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I’m not too worried about where the camera is or positions.
When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn’t go where you want it to go. It’s a lot of pressure.
I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I’m reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.