Disney was a family film studio and I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with some guy, that was the end of Disney.
[Out To Sea] began a relationship I had with [director] Martha Coolidge for a few years that was wonderful, and she certainly cast me in the best roles I've ever had in film.
The difficulty is the levels of secrecy we had to maintain around the project at all different times. We had to keep it a secret while making it so we could move under the radar so we could get the stories. Before it came out we had to keep it on lock down to protect the safety and security of some people who appear in the film.
I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.
See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.
New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.
Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say that as a joke, but there's a grain of truth to it. I'm not a stupid daredevil who jumps into the crater of the volcano to get the closest close-up, I'm not one of those. And you have to be aware that you have a crew with you and you are responsible.
I always wanted to design for films.
I've never been on a film when an entire cast signs up for the entire time.
If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.
Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.
When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.
Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.
I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.
I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.
Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
Richard Donner made great movies. Seminal movies. The Academy, though, and we have to be careful here, should recognize popular films. Popular films are what make it all work. There was a time when popular movies were commercial movies, and they were good movies, and they had to be good movies. There was no segregation between good independent films and popular movies.
I think in general with micro-budget films right now, it's rough. The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.