Zitat des Tages von William Hurt:
For as privileged an actor as I have been, TV as a standard is short shrift. They have to do it so quickly that they don't stop and take a look. They just shoot. So that's one of the reasons I typically stay away from it. I think art is an act of consideration, and if you're not considering, I don't think you're really doing mankind a favor.
The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is.
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out.
Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will.
But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.
I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.
I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.
People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value.
If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.
I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.
The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not.
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.
The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.
I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.
Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances.
The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
I'm never happier than when I'm with my family.
I am just as comfortable in Britain and France as I am in America... but nowhere is perfect.
I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public.
The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel.
I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent.
I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting.
I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.
I've made a couple of films that were a little too wide and non-specific - like 'The Doctor.'
Every single second of extra time to work with other actors has definitely always, for me, paid off for the film. For the project. Every single extra heartbeat you could get, mutually considering the scene, was of benefit.
It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised.
