Personal Quotes.....
[on Ridley
Scott] Nobody does toga movies like my brother.
[on Tom
Cruise] A magnet for women.
[on Days of
Thunder (1990)] The problem was, we started on the movie without a
script. Tom [Cruise] was already part of the line-up when I arrived and they
said: "Tom can sit behind the wheel of a race car and smoke a cigarette
and this movie will make a fortune." And that was the attitude we went in
with. Robert
Towne would be writing the scenes at night, we would shoot in the
morning. It was a dangerous way to work. But we really thought, "Look -
it's racing cars and it's Tom Cruise!" But you always have to get a story
and you've got to get character first, and we hadn't.
(The studio)
saw a cut of The Hunger (1983) and all of a sudden my
parking spot at Warner Brothers was painted out.
I always get
criticized for style over content, unlike Ridley's films that go into the
classic box right away. Mine sort of hover. Maybe with time people will start
saying they should be classics, but I think I'm always perceived as reaching
too hard for difference, and difference doesn't categorize you as the 'classic
category'.
The biggest
edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do
in your life.
The scariest
thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the
fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts
their faith in you and not coming through?
I like
changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how
to see the world differently.
Ridley makes films for posterity. My films are more rock 'n' roll.
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