With 'Apollo 13,' I wasn't sure the genre would work, because space films hadn't done that well.
Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.
It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'
If your first film does badly, there's no guarantee of the second film.
There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it again 'cause they were out of synch with where they were, and they would never raise that money again.
Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.
When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.
Mainstream movies used to be more adventurous because people went to them.
I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.
Any film you make is a crap shoot.
Filmmaking involves a lot of money and hard work, which should not be wasted, though nobody knows which film will be a hit.
It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.
It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.
There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk.
