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?’
TOM CRUISEI don’t hide from cameras or anything. It doesn’t bother me. I don’t seek our press for the women I’m dating, but if it finds me, it finds me.
More Tom Cruise Quotes
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When I’m promoting a film, I’m not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.
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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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As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, “This is what I love doing, and I hope I’m going to be able to do it forever.”
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I’ll never forget the moment I became a dad. It’s hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.
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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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I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. ‘If there’s no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.’ That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.
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Whether it’s making a film or raising my children, personally I’m striving to do the right things and to learn.
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Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
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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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Even in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.
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Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident… you know you have to do something about it because you know you’re the only one that can really help.
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I didn’t become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
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I’m someone who doesn’t believe in making my problems other people’s problems.
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It’s well known I’m a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it’s something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.
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Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.
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