I don't watch the movies I'm in - ever. Sometimes I keep pictures, but that's it. I used to watch my movies, because I didn't want to be rude to the people making them, but I stopped a few years ago. I think it's pretty common among actors. It's like...
There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might ...
My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware o...
I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.
Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.
There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.
From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.
Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support charact...
I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.
I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.
As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents, and we just go out and audition for them.
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I...
Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.
Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.
My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.
When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.
I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
