'Border' was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.
Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.
When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
My life is like a Kevin Smith movie." "Zany and unpredictable?" "Mildly humorous but ultimately not worth the effort of paying for a ticket.
If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.
There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
I can tell you, if you shoot in the rain you're going to have a lot of voice ADR to do after the movie and voice looping, stuff like that.
I did this movie with Spike Lee called 'Sucker Free City,' and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco.
I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.
I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.
I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot.
We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the wa...
It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.
I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.
