What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.
When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.
It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.
Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
I think because I've maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.
I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.
A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.
I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.
I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock.
People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.
The score, which comes often quite later in a film, can help reinvigorate your emotional engagement with it.
I would have to say that working on 'Warrior' felt more like working on a play than any other film I've ever done.
John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.
In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.
I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way, including 'Lost' and 'The Wire.' As a kid, I'd read books while playing.
I have been very fortunate, working a lot in TV, and have been able to dip into the film world a little bit here and there.
A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show.
