I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.
I've always been attracted to sad. If you look at Woody Allen movies, he's often playing a sad clown, and it's always been interesting. And angry clown is even more interesting.
I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.
I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level.
I never want movie theaters go away. It is the greatest time out on the town. You go out, it's a great place to go, great location, great hang, great date, good place to be with friends. But as an actor who works hard at making movies, I am glad that no matter what people can see your movie on. It's hard to keep a theater for long time; there are so many movies, so when you leave a theater, you're just glad there's a life for your movie.
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
If you make a good family movie, then everybody in the family can relate to somebody, or in this case something. That's always enjoyable. There's always an important place for family movies.
I have done about 15 movies so far and am on my 5th season on That '70s Show.
I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
I'd become a cult figure to a certain extent because of my movies, but unfortunately it was because of how bad they were!
The thing about all good horror movies is that the fans expect a couple of inside jokes. Maybe I'm supposed to be saying how terrified I was while making it, but it was really fun.
The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.
It's the saddest year in movies. We've got "Manchester," "Moonlight," "Chronic," "Jackie". . . it's sad when "American Honey" is the happiest film of the year and it's about runaways aimlessly trying to figure out their lives with no parental figures.
I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.
I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved, about players and coaches that I respected. I wanted to convey my love of the game through film. And most artists convey their love through art. And my art and my love was expressed through film.
I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.
Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.
When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.
I love depressing movies and depressing books.