I didn’t want to make a literal film about Detroit, because it felt like what they were experiencing was more universal than that.
I know there are only so many characters I’ll be able to play.
I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.
I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it’s all in the uniform. Once you’re in it, it usually does all the work for you.
I feel like one of the things that I watched that I felt was really helpful in some way but, more than anything, is worth mentioning was this film ‘Boogie Man.’ It’s a documentary about Lee Atwater.
I did what I had to do to get where I wanted to go. I had unearned confidence.
Any time you stick your neck out in high school, there’s someone right there to chop your head off.
I grew up Mormon. I wasn’t really Mormon, my parents were.
I did this scene in ‘Lars and the Real Girl’ where I was in a room full of old ladies who were knitting, and it was an all-day scene, so they showed me how. It was one of the most relaxing days of my life.
The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don’t know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.
I know that I’m with the person I’m supposed to be with.
In New York, you’re forced to deal with life; it’s there in front of you on a daily basis.
I had my hustle. It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it.
If Russell Crowe says that he’s Noah, he’s Noah. You never doubt it. If he says that he’s the Gladiator, he’s the Gladiator. He’s every character that he says he is. I’ve never doubted anything that he’s done.
I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines.
If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that’s about as romantic as I can think of.
Women are better than men.
I’m not very good at knowing what people want. I don’t have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens.
I just sort of feel like John Hughes movies are perfect, but they’re missing violence. If they just had some violence, they’d be perfect.
Working with someone is the best way to get to know someone, especially if it’s a creative endeavor.
I’ve lost perspective on what I’m doing. I think it’s good for me to take a break and reassess why I’m doing it and how I’m doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.
The Internet is just an abstract place. Sure, I’ve become part of that in some way, but it’s hard for me to wrap my head around a lot of it. I prefer just to kind of stay out of it.
I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I’ve just been programmed to think like a girl.
I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there’s so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.
When you meet your kids, you realize that they deserve great parents. And then you have your marching orders, and you have to try and become the person that they deserve.
The people of Disney are so incredibly amazing; they are so nice.
I think the ‘Law of Attraction’ comes from a rich, white, privileged perspective.
Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.
I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren’t good or aren’t about people.
For now, I’m just going to keep doing the work and hope I don’t get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I’ll love it.
Now that I’m an actor and I have movies, press, I have more occasions to wear suits. I like wearing suits.
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