Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.
[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.
It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.
What I found was an emotional consistency with him. The words, the scenes, the situations - I wasn't mimicking what I thought Branch Rickey's emotional reality would have been.
That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story.
Chadwick Boseman work as an actor, I think, is truly remarkable, and I had a great time working with him.
I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package.
I get an opportunity to communicate with the audience about the movie that I've made. I get the chance to bring attention to the film that I've made. I care a lot about the movies that I make. I want them to reach an audience, and I want them to be successful. I promote nearly everything that I do, unless I've got some bad taste in my mouth.
I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.
I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.
Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.
An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.
[In relationships with a directors] I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.
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.
The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world.
The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.
Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.
I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.
The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.
Henry: Well I'm sorry about your head though, but I thought you were one of them. Indiana: Dad, they come in through the doors.
