I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.
There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,...
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.
Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?
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.
I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.
I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young.
I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again.
I didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies.
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.
When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.
I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.
I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.
I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.
I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.
You do something on television, and so many people see it that it follows you around. It's interesting. I've done a couple of things on TV, and probably more people saw me than in all the movies I've made.
My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.
Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.
It's true in most movies I don't use my own voice.
I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.
