94 Quotes by Thomas Jane

I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It’s our ability to form and maintain relationships. It’s the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

I’m of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it’s a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I’d be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.

To me, it’s the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don’t like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that’s a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

Establishing what the vision is and being able to stick to it is the job, and everyone should be on the same page, going in. With that said, first-time director or not, you never know what you’re going to get.

We’re in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We’re not in the results business, so we don’t have any control over what the result is.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I’m not seeing.

If I have things my way, over the next few years, I’m going to be doing a lot more directing and a lot less acting. That will be fun for a while.

I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you’re doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene. It’s not a movie-by-movie or a part-by-part basis. It’s a day-by-day thing, and sometimes an hour-by-hour thing.