I believe in doing good for good's sake.
I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.
It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.
When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.
The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.
The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other. The actors that are working internationally - that's a small number.
The Age of Adaline was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production.
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Amebic dysentery is endemic throughout the world, affecting 17. 6% of the population. In the US, it affects 13. 6%. . . . No one. . really knows the extent of the parasites and the diseases they cause.
Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.
Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.