I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network movies of the week, foreign films, independent American films, studio films, the stage.
I was definitely a child of the '80s. Cable TV was new. I watched a ton of movies and a ton of TV. HBO would show the same movies over and over again, so I'd watch the same movies over and over again.
Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.
When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.
I'm a Hollywood kid, and I know that there are only so many stories. Only so many tales around the campfire that we have to tell. Then we have to regurgitate them. Our grandparents' movies were all remakes of silent films - we forget that, but it's true.
I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he's Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I'm a big fan of his.
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.
Uh, I think so many things have happened in the mainstream that definitely brought awareness and attention to a cappella. The 'Pitch Perfect' movies, 'The Sing-Off' - I mean, the college a cappella scene definitely has become really hot, which is definitely wonderful.
I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.
I knit for Caps for Good - a charity that gives hats to Third World babies - while I watch movies with friends.
I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.
Girls may love movies about fairytale princes, but their most captivating romance is with their friends.
