I think the great thing about the Jack Ryan films is that the plot and the story always take center stage. If you've done your job as the actor portraying Jack Ryan, you are present enough to make an impact, but you let the story shine.
I'm more embarrassed about some of the films that I've been in than I am about Playboy. Playboy I'm actually quite proud of.
I went through a phase when I was watching a lot of foreign films, just itching to get out of the suburbs and explore.
I was doing specialisation in advertising. I had no interest in acting. One of my friends, who was doing specialisation in films, made a short film casting me. Luckily, I got a break, and my acting career took off.
It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.
I don't want the Latino community to think I think the reason Latino films are not doing well is because of us. It is not fully our responsibility.
I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.
I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.
'Duel' is one of the greatest suspense films of all time.
I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.
I don't think good films have messages.
I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.
One of the most iconic films ever made was 'Sholay.'
There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.
The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.
When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
I don't watch a great deal of television because I don't have a television, and I don't have a huge catalog of films that I've watched, either.
I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.
I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.
The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
It would be great to be 105 and still making films.
I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.
I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.
It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.
My son Gautham usually doesn't watch my films. But he watched 'Srimanthudu' in the theatre.
For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it.
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
