When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean? Thomas Jane More Quotes by Thomas Jane More Quotes From Thomas Jane I wanted to make a fan film for a character I've always loved and believed in - a love letter to Frank Castle & his fans. It was an incredible experience with everyone on the project throwing in their time just for the fun of it. It's been a blast to be a part of from start to finish - we hope the friends of Frank enjoy watching it as much as we did making it. Thomas Jane fans fun character To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character. Thomas Jane kissing actors character I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know? Thomas Jane impression impact people I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing. Thomas Jane vision missing want I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre. Thomas Jane genre great-love love-and-respect I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe. Thomas Jane cringe i-can If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience. Thomas Jane challenging-myself alive challenges I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene. It's not a movie-by-movie or a part-by-part basis. It's a day-by-day thing, and sometimes an hour-by-hour thing. Thomas Jane imagine choices sometimes We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is. Thomas Jane creating results acting You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with. Thomas Jane scripts stories people Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know. Thomas Jane matter want directors Establishing what the vision is and being able to stick to it is the job, and everyone should be on the same page, going in. With that said, first-time director or not, you never know what you're going to get. Thomas Jane vision jobs directors Sharing the same vision for what's on the page is always a good idea. The director's job is to establish what that is and make sure that everyone sticks to it when it comes down to actually executing it. Thomas Jane vision jobs ideas Creating a world in a sci-fi show is almost the whole battle. If you have a great story and you can create a great world, as far as the acting goes, it makes my job a whole lot easier. Thomas Jane creating battle jobs Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV. Thomas Jane nice would-be television If I have things my way, over the next few years, I'm going to be doing a lot more directing and a lot less acting. That will be fun for a while. Thomas Jane acting fun years When I was doing character films, I would always try to find something to subvert the standard. You know, to play them exactly for what they are. That's the fun for me. Thomas Jane play fun character You want to please society. You want to be happy. You want to be well liked. You want to be held in high esteem and be respected. These are real things. You want respect from your peers, respect from your loved ones; you want to be looked up to for your achievements and your accomplishments. All of this requires conformity in some form or another. Thomas Jane be-happy you respect happy Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom. Thomas Jane you conflict freedom happiness It's kind of true that they just start making the same movie over and over again. It's also true that the times dictate what kind of movies get made and what kind are not. So I'm always looking for something that's a little fresh and something that I haven't seen before. Thomas Jane true movies looking start
