It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.
When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.
The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.
I'm always repeating myself. You never just do a scene once, you do it an insane amount of times.
The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.
I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.
The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other. The actors that are working internationally - that's a small number.
Stepping on set is always overwhelming.
I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention.
Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.
I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.
When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.
The Age of Adaline was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production.
I respect motorcycles so much. They've come such a long way. It's amazing!
I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.
There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.
I went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.
I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and you can start doing things like you would do.
