I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.
Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.
So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.
Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot.
It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.
For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies.
In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id.
Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.
People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.
I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.
I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.
I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate.
I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.
It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can.
When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.
My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.
There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.
