Woodsman Quotes

You can sit around and complain that Hollywood doesn`t make any good movies. But you can generate your own material. So I read books. I come up with ideas. I was the producer on The Woodsman (2004) to help get that off the ground. Sometimes that extends itself to directing.

And life has taught me that if I am to have a satisfying career, I have to take three things out of the mix. The first is the size of my part. The second is the size of the budget. And the third is the size of my salary. Once you get rid of those things, your possibilities exponentially explode. You get to work with the directors who matter. You get to make movies like The Woodsman (2004).

Initially, I wasn`t offered the part. I was walking up the beach in Willowbridge, the British West Indies on Christmas Eve and saw this guy who I know peripherally. He`s not in the film industry, but in Philadelphia real estate or something like that. He said, `They sent me this script and asked me to invest in it` and told me there was another actor involved. That`s all he said. He told me to take a look at it and let him know if it was a good investment. Normally, I would never take a screenplay under those conditions. You can`t read everything. You`d spend your whole life reading scripts from people on beaches. I got home on January 2nd or 3rd and it was sitting there. I picked it up and read it and a barrage of feelings washed over me -- anger, disgust, confusion, and compassion, feeling angry with myself for feeling compassionate. I put it down and knew that it was probably going to be my next movie. (On The Woodsman)

There`s nothing I won`t play. I won`t draw the line at anything. Worrying about image is for celebrities, not actors. My concerns were more about not getting paid and whether we could make a compelling movie that people would go and see. I also knew it was gonna be a tough one to make, that it was really gonna suck. I had to go to a dark place. (On The Woodsman)

(on playing a pedophile in The Woodsman (2004)) I don`t have people who would advise me against this based on some sort of "image". At some point you have to decide if you`re going to be a personality or you`re going to be an actor. If playing this kind of a role could have a negative effect on my public personality, I don`t care. I`ll play anything, if I think there`s something compelling, or there`s a director I`m dying to work with, or a part I hadn`t done before or a co-star I think is great.