Jim Caviezel Quotes

When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way.

If I want to be a leading man in a film, box office numbers count because producers have invested money. I see no wrong in that process.

I would love to work with Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Abishek Bachchan and a lot more... even Imran Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Ranbir Kapoor are damn good with their acting.

I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.

See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

There is a Bollywood actor, Salman Khan, and I'd like to act alongside him - whatever the film.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.

I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.

I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'

Prior to doing a 'Bond' film, I was a young actor doing classical theater and some BBC dramas. Then, suddenly, I was thrown into this franchise. I had never experienced anything like it.

I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

The big money goes to kids and young men - big tent-pole movies, which are expensive but have a great return.

The distribution systems and the cinemas have adopted to the blockbusters, and they now get their main income from selling popcorn, and if you don't make a film that sells popcorn, it's very hard to get it out there.

If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.

'The Last Seduction,' 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'While You Were Sleeping' did a lot to get me noticed for bigger roles.

The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.

In future I will surely look forward to doing Hollywood projects.

I didn't debut in a film playing a diva.