It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.
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I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, 'That's what I want to do for a living when I'm older.' Bruce Lee was so magnetic and charismatic and held the screen so well.
For me, as an actor, going from TV to film was interesting because TV and film are two very different things.
Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.
I grew up on films.
I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was 'Easy Rider' and 'Taxi Driver.' Everything was gritty.
I grew up on Mel Brooks films. That was film to me until I got a little bit older and realised there were other kinds of movies.
Bruce Willis is Bruce Willis in every single movie I've seen him in, except 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Mortal Thoughts,' which is another movie he was in that was very different from what he normally does.
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.