I'm from the theater, where the process of creating a character from the ground up is something that's not imposed on him. We started working on it months in advance, and we rehearsed for two weeks, and even the look of his apartment came out of discussions with him and the production designer. |
I'm interested in those personal stories, not taking a political stand. |
If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything. |
In terms of being an outsider in America and having a certain type of objectivity to a degree, there were a few times I thought to myself: What on earth am I doing here? I'm a Brit making a movie so firmly set in the States! |
It always gets worse as you get older. You get more nervous, there's more to lose. He's got to live up to being Paul Newman. |
It came as a lovely surprise to me, ... and I think it's great for us because the movie is just about to come out, we want people to know about it, so we're here and we're blowing the trumpet loud. |
It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character. |
It's 115 degrees, you're away from trees, cars, everything. You can't hear anything because the wind's blowing. You don't have your clothes, your car, your girlfriend, anything. And I really think Jake forgot he was acting a lot of times. |
It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself. |
It's great, it's exciting, you can't pretend that it isn't. I couldn't help but remember Close Encounters when I was a kid. |
It's his eyes, |
It's not seeking to deliver a message, and it's not seeking to teach a lesson, any of those things, |
It's very hard doing a period movie. You have to do everything, from the streetlamps to covering up the road markings. Every bystander has to be in period costume. You have to plan very carefully. |
Jarhead |
Jarhead ... come to the dark side. |