It's different when you're in a huge movie and you're being told that you can do whatever you want. It was also really cool because it helped me grow so much faster than I would have, if I did another thing where it was like, "Here's what you're saying, and that's it. Do not go off page. "
I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don't remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me.
Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.
I don't rush out the first day to see every horror movie, but I do keep up on them, because I want to talk intelligently with the fans about them.
There are not that many people in the movies today that really make me go out and buy a movie ticket.
I think everybody would love to say they were in a movie. Whether or not I'm any good at it, I don't know.
Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.
So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.
I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.
Mel Gibson's father doesn't think there was a Holocaust? Great. I don't think there's a movie. We're even.
Years ago, even prior to 911, I did a movie called "The Siege. " I did a lot of research with the FBI and the CIA. And I was amazed at that time (I guess we might all know it now) how little information they shared with each other. So after that, I'm not surprised by anything.
You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.
As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.
I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TVfilm completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
So I'm a one movie at a time person, I don't develop. Normally we do a movie then one thing leads to another. If something pops up that catches my attention, then I'll decide.
Certainly there's pressure while your making the movie.
I've been trying to make records and I describe it almost like a "movie for your ears" where it's a little unconventional in its shape and form, but there's something that's intriguing in keeping you wanting to wait and see the next frame of film, except in here what's coming around the corner for your ears.
Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.