Pastoral Resources

In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less!

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.

I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.

The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.

My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.

When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'

If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it.

First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it's been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you're going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it.