I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.
I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.
I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.
To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.
I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.
I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.
When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.
My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.
The down-side of these huge-budget movies is that so many people have a hand in them, sometimes they come out a little more vanilla.
I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.
Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too.
I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.
For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.
I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
