Tom Cruise interview quote
投稿者: Capucine · old hollywood: Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise clarifies his approach to filmmaking isn't about opening weekend numbers. Instead, he focuses on the evolution and legacy of cinema. He put it directly: "I'm not making movies for opening weekend. I'm making movies for the evolution and the legacy of the movie."
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So I never thought of movies as when I'm making them going opening weekend. And I don't feel that way about it. I feel very much like we're going to do everything to make it as something that is a blasting piece of cinema. The first meeting that I had with Tom said, well, he said, well, we're going to shoot. And Pinewood said, oh, I was in 1982. I burned that stage with Ridley Scott. What? So four years before he has been in that set. So he's like, I mean, it's like. Legend. Literally. Yeah. And also to be able to see Ridley at the beginning. Wow. Right after Blade Runner, to be on the set, hear how he made Blade Runner. Blade Runner was a disaster. I mean, that's a masterpiece. A masterpiece. Everybody killed it. I mean, it was crazy. The same like Once Upon a Time in America was a mess. It was like, anyway, but those films in a way, I mean. They transcend you. It was amazing that you were shooting that after that film. That's iconic. I remember as a kid going, I don't want to just make a movie now. Like the films that I love that I've seen, it's like, it still affects me. You just hope and go how can I make a film that will that will last That will not just you know so many things happen when you opening a movie you know and I was fortunate to be able to have released films in the eighties and the nineties where movies would stay in the theaters for a year. Like you could, you could release a movie. You know, I remember like what Bonnie and Clyde, they released in the film, didn't do well. They pulled it and then re-released it. Or The Great Santini, they released it as the ace and then kind of did a whole campaign and re-release. So as audiences are able to find it, like with Rain Man or different films, Born the Fourth of July, or these movies that would just play and play for a year, sometimes years. So it's, and you're going, how can I make a film, hopefully that will translate and last and evolve? And I feel that way, you know, about your work. And, you know, it's very interesting. Hopefully Digger. Yes. Digger, you know, listen, that is Digger. It is one of those movies. And now, you know, so I never thought of movies as when I'm making them going opening weekend. And I don't feel that way about it. I feel very much like we're going to do everything to make it as something that is a blasting piece of cinema.
