Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.
All I do is go to the movies.
I've been really lucky. When I decided to go to LA I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.
Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the line now with this film. No more water!
When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.
I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.
I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.
Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.
'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
As an actor, as much as I'm interested in how you make movies and TV shows, even as a kid, I've always hated making of featurettes and special features on DVDs. I think it breaks the spell.
No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.
Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.
I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.
I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
I want to make timeless movies.
