Oncoming Quotes

I was already 35 years old, and I`d been in show business for 30-plus years, and suddenly there was this big movie and I was getting an Oscar, and this enormous thing happened," he says. "In Annie Hall (1977), I played the strange brother who wanted to drive into oncoming cars. Immediately after that was The Deer Hunter (1978), where I played this nice guy who shoots himself in the head. Something happened there. The fact that they came so close together, and they were both important movies, two big public things where I was simultaneously . . . `disturbed.` That got the ball rolling for me in terms of being an actor.

I write my own action. There`s a scene in The Island (2005) - a highway chase where a pile of train wheels fall off a truck and smashes into the oncoming cars. That thought came to me as I was driving next to a truck carrying rail wheels. My mind is very fertile, so I`m like, `That`s very dangerous!` I sent someone out to do research and found out those train wheels weigh a TON each . . .

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.