TOM CRUISE ON-STAGE CONVERSATION YESTERDAY AT BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE
In yesterday's quote we had Tom Cruise telling Sight And Sound's Isabel Stevens that, as he started his own production company, "I looked at the landscape, and I wanted something that was exploring motion in a different way."
Cruise talked a little more about his quest for cinematic motion during an on-stage conversation yesterday at the British Film Institute, according to The Independent's Greg Evans:
“ I love the theme music,” Cruise joked. “ I thought it'd be interesting to take a Cold War TV series and turn it into an action movie. I wanted action and suspense and lots of motion. I studied silent movies, Fantasia (1940) and musicals. How do you utilise motion?“ I was constantly working and developing my abilities and developing technology. It was such early days that the harnesses that I was wearing were very new and the cables were very new and we were all experimenting.
“ I remember the scene where I got blown from the helicopter to the train and there were pipes from the camera rig sticking out and I was like: ‘Guys, I might impale my skull’. No one had thought about stuff like that.”