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Here’s how I’ve lived my life: I’ve never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

Tom Cruise

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
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Kids Love Once
Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience’s skin. He was very interested in the idea of, ‘How can I tell this with just a camera?’
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Cameras Ideas Skins
I used to go to Maple Leafs games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto. This is a great city. I love it here.
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Cities Countries Games People
I’m someone who doesn’t believe in making my problems other people’s problems.
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Believe People Problem
I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and talented, and we can problem solve together.
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People Smart Together
Every time I make a “Mission” movie or other films, people kind of look at me and go, “Well, now what? What’s next?” I think there’s always going to be another mountain. I think there’s something always in store.
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Mountain People Thinking
I’ve gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it’s endurance.
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Knowing Life Thinking
I kept looking [at Katie] and thinking, ‘This woman’s amazing.’ I’m happy that I’m with her. She’s amazing, and I’d think the same of her even if she wasn’t with me – she’s just amazing.
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Holmes Thinking Wife
Where do I get my seriousness? You can’t help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she’s making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support.
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Grow Up Kids Mother
People go for help, but their lives don’t get better because of those [psychiatric] drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and they’re told that’s a good thing. It’s how you degrade a society – by drugging the piss out of it.
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Better Drug Ge People
I’m a good listener. I think it’s the one characteristic that’s most important. I’ve always been that way. Not that I take all the advice, but you’ve got to listen to it and have the courage to make your own decision. Then I just go for it.
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Advice Decision Thinking
I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We’ve always been very close, my sisters and me.
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All Close Live Sister
I love adventure movies, I just love action adventure films. It’s pure cinema and you go in and you’re lost to it. To me, it’s that challenge – I want to give an audience that ride, that entertainment.
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Adventure Challenges Giving
I’ve never done work for money, ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn’t do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
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Choices Mean Money
When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.
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Emotional Imbalance People
I don’t care if you print something nasty about me. If it’s true, fine. I don’t care. But just make sure it’s the truth.
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Care Nasty Truth

Here’s how I’ve lived my life: I’ve never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

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Here’s how I’ve lived my life: I’ve never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

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