Bill Pullman Quotes
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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 think I was born out of my time.
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I always come back to acting.
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I did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.
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Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'
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There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.
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I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
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I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.
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Stacy Keach was really fun to work with, and Henry Winkler was very fun.
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American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.
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The military is a discrete entity. Then they come back, and they're such a small percentage of the population, and they can't really - it's hard for them to talk to civilians.
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Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.
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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'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.
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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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It's during wartime that innovations happen.
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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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My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.
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We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions.
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I did 'Malice,' 'Sommersby,' and 'Sleepless in Seattle,' and they're as disparate characters as I've ever played. But somehow, there was that thing - they were all second male leads, so they all didn't get the girl in some weird way.
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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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There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.
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The chaos of my life has a lot to do with my hair.
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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.