I don't think I have read this one before, from National Treaure time. It is a good interview. It is long, so I won't post it all. I like this last paragraph, though.
"I have eclectic taste. I wouldn't want to be on one steady diet of any type of movie and so I think that informs my choices as well. I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do. I think it's dangerous when you get trapped in an identity that is one way. I mean, it can work because then the audience knows what they're going to get, and they can rely on that person to do that type of movie every time. But that would be very boring for me and I would be calcified by that. I love keeping myself guessing and keeping you guessing. I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent. I always have. I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond. Bruce Lee, I always forget to mention him. He was a huge inspiration for me and when I was a kid, I was Bruce Lee in my mind. And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy."
a little *bump* i only finished the page one, but have to admit i have been captived by the last one that he talked about his co-stars Diane Kruger & Justin Bartha*cracker*
Wow! That`s really an awesome interview! And, it is great, how he speaks of his childhood, Jon Turteltaub, Jerry Bruckheimer and some of his movies! Thanks for posting it, Lady T.!
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