Macho was a fashionable word in the 1980s. Everybody was kind of into it, what`s macho and what isn`t macho. I really don`t know what macho is. I never have understood. Does it mean somebody who swaggers around exuding testosterone? And kicks the gate ope...
I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don`t have a toy they`ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.
I`ve done a lot of violent movies, especially in the early days. My recent efforts, like The Bridges of Madison County (1995), weren`t too violent. In recent years I`ve done less, and, yes, I am concerned about violence in film. In `92, when I did Unforgi...
In those days, they`d make interview tests, not acting tests. They`d sit you in front of the camera and talk- just as we`re talking now. I thought I was an absolute clod. It looked pretty good; it was photographed well, but I thought, `If that`s acting, I...