When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.
Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.
Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
Actors don't have real value.
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.
Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.