I Accrued Anger From People's

I Haven't Purposefully Set Out To Play Heroes. I'm Interested In Playing The Character Who Finds Himself In Extraordinary Circumstances. But He's Really Either Just Saving Himself Or Acting In The Service Of Something That's Important To Him.

As A Matter Of Fact, That Was A Bit Of A Problem For Me At The Beginning Of My Career - The Problem Of Identification. In The Conversation I Played A Character Who Was Gay, So Nobody Recognised Me From American Graffiti. When I Did Apocalypse Now, After Star Wars, I Played An Intelligence Officer Of The American Army. George Lucas Saw The Footage I Had Done And Didn't Recognise Me Until Halfway Through The Scene.

With The Cgi, Suddenly There's A Thousand Enemies Instead Of Six - The Army Goes Off Into The Horizon. You Don't Need That. The Audience Loses Its Relationship With The Threat On The Screen. That's Something That's Consistently Happening And It Makes These Movies Like Video Games And That's A Soulless Enterprise. It's All Kinetics Without Emotion.

The Trick Of This Thing And The Beauty Of This Thing Is That It's A Cowboy Movie First And Then Stuff Happens. Even After Stuff Happens It Doesn't Change - It Hasn't Suddenly Changed Into Another Kind Of Movie. It's Still A Cowboy Movie. And That's What's Incredible About It Because Nobody Has Done That Before, That's New Territory.

The Job's Always The Same. It Involves Helping To Tell The Story And Creating An Alloy Between Character And Story That Serves The Film.