I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty. |
I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie. |
I've had a great career up until now, and I'm trying to kind of take the reigns. Unfortunately, I've seen so many actors who reach a certain prominence, and then they do a couple of films that don't get accepted by the public or are critically panned and the next thing you know, they're out the door. |
In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you. |
It was inspiring work, we knew we were telling a great story and that would inspire others, |
It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised. |
It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending. |
It's going to be a slaughterhouse out there. But I feel pretty good. I feel I got two hits on my hands. |
It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set. |
People interpret things through their owns lens, just the way they do the Bible. You can find justification for just about everything in the Bible. I think man has got a great ego when it comes to his God, whatever that is. It just seems to me that someone who wants to take on God's punishment, it just seems a huge egoism to think that he should appoint himself to take care of God's punishments. |
The Greatest Game Ever Played |
The wonderful thing about golf for a director is that it is inherently cinematic and dramatic. In a tournament the golfers are like gunslingers, |
This is one of those great moments in cinema. |
We are not playing these people with parody or satire. We are playing these people dead earnest. I'm a guy who's trying to do the right thing by his family and by his God. ... That's what really guided me in the role. |
We're playing these characters dead earnest. |