Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.
— Bill Pullman
I did this play, 'Expedition 6,' that I worked on for three years in between other things. It was a good, interesting time for me because I trained as a theater director, and I went back, and we toured it around.
I never had any idea of going into movies.
American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.
I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.
'The Virginian' has a very important romantic story line that you don't find in a lot of Westerns... At the heart of the story is quite a bit of pain and a sense of loss.
Some of the shoes I have are from movies - I have my workman's boots from 'While You Were Sleeping' - while others are shoes I've had forever.
I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.
I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.
The first Westerns I saw as a child were those little 8-mm. home movies put out by Castle Films.
This whole climate change and what it's doing to our environment is frightening to people.
I've always been what they call a late bloomer.
'Zabriskie Point' was a time when I was in a lot of change and flux, and these incredible visuals hit me like they had rearranged the organs in my body. The ending and the free-floating debris and everything is an image that burned itself in my consciousness.
I enjoy that with theater, you can just go into a room with a paper bag lunch: there're no cables, no electricity. It's the purest experience.
Globalisation is happening so fast it's confusing for people, and tolerance is threatened.
I wake up as soon as it gets light.
I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.
I was doing this children's theater play, and it was non-Equity. We were out of town to do it at the Kennedy Center, and it was always kind of, 'Well, the producers may have to turn this into Equity,' and that's what happened. It was kind of a silly children's theater play, but that's how I got my card.
I watched John Wayne movies, matinees - things like that. It was only in college that I saw European films. That became more of what I was interested in.
I've done a lot of different kinds of things, so different people remember me for different things.
There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.
I'm a very discriminating shoe shopper. I only look for something special. In fact, I don't think I've ever bought two pairs at the same time.
I hate to admit it, because it makes me sound weird, but I'm Mr. Shoes. I own over 30 pairs.
I think I was born out of my time.
It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The audience amplifies the experience.
If you are in an Edward Albee play, you say Edward Albee is the greatest playwright of all time... If you're in an Israel Horovitz play, you say Israel Horovitz is the greatest playwright of all time.
I've never really been a television watcher and watched comedies, and I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television as the dad.
Growing things and being able to live off the land has always appealed to me.
I want to be scary, boring, philosophical, funny, touching.
I always feel like there are a lot of different types of favourites. There are some that I look to for interesting things, some that I look to for acting things, others that I watch again and again.
The chaos of my life has a lot to do with my hair.
I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.
Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.
Sometimes when you really try to be earnest, everything disappears. If you really try to make a romantic movie, the first thing that goes out the window is the romance or real passion. It suddenly becomes cute-ville or cozy-ville. It's another world other than life.
I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.
I always love challenges and doing something that I can't quite figure out.
There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.
The idea of taking classic American stories and reinterpreting them for a time and place is not just commercially viable. These stories also carry a sensual nature of what it meant to be an American, and they deserve to be reinterpreted.
I like to wear my dad's shoes to auditions as sort of a lucky thing. I feel like I'm on solid ground.
I always come back to acting.
If I were born in the 1700s, I would look like a rounded man.
Othello is someone who's just had a victory, and it's the aftermath of coming back and attempting to live comfortably as a civilian.
My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.
There's something about Warren Wilson. You can gain a lot of very important things and skills that you carry over into whatever you decide to do.
I was the kid who would join a sports team and be the biggest liability at first and a star player by the time the game got going. I just move very slowly.
As an actor, you're continually riding the waves of whether you're in or out, getting work or not getting work, and Kazan was really a guy who was condemned into not working and looking to go deep into someplace and just live inside his art.
I always loved asking everybody when I arrived in England, from the drivers who picked me up to the people at the hotel to people I met when I was walking in the park, almost everyone at some point would say, 'Everyone loves Ant & Dec!' From eight to 80.
We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions.
I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.
