Bill Pullman Quotes
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With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
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It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The audience amplifies the experience.
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I did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.
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Stacy Keach was really fun to work with, and Henry Winkler was very fun.
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It's funny: When I first heard they were thinking of me for the president in 'Independence Day,' I just assumed it was a comedy - I didn't exactly think of myself as leader-of-the-free-world material.
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I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.
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The idea of taking classic American stories and reinterpreting them for a time and place is not just commercially viable. These stories also carry a sensual nature of what it meant to be an American, and they deserve to be reinterpreted.
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Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
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I'm often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don't have that problem.
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I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.
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With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.
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A lot of people just ask me about how I can do small budgets and big budgets, but many actors do both. I think the more self-destructive impulse I have is doing so many different characters.
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I don't watch TV. I'd probably be a better person if I did, but it makes me anxious.
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I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.
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I don't think I'm repeating anything I've done before, but sometimes I lose track.
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Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'
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I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
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I did this play, 'Expedition 6,' that I worked on for three years in between other things. It was a good, interesting time for me because I trained as a theater director, and I went back, and we toured it around.
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I'm not a gardener. I don't have the consistency for gardening, and I have barely enough for an orchard. I don't embarrass myself. You have to be there tending and weeding. With orchards, you can go through negligent periods and recover.
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American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.
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If you are in an Edward Albee play, you say Edward Albee is the greatest playwright of all time... If you're in an Israel Horovitz play, you say Israel Horovitz is the greatest playwright of all time.
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Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.
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Growing things and being able to live off the land has always appealed to me.
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It's during wartime that innovations happen.