Veteran actor Tom Cruise is considered to be one of the greatest film stars of all time and constantly challenges himself with roles that are not only out of the box, but also give the actor a chance to come out of his comfort zone. Having spent more than four decades in the business, he still feels the same passion for film, the same curiosity about the craft of storytelling and the same desire to keep learning.
That’s what is driving him on to the next stage of his career and he just won’t give up on his dreams.
Speaking during a Q&A session following a special screening of Digger hosted by Creative Artists Agency, the 64-year-old star spoke about the ambitions that originally got him into filmmaking. He didn’t announce any specific plans for the future, but did give us a good indication of the mindset that still underpins his work.
“I wanted to make movies, I wanted to travel the world, I wanted to understand people. And how do I do this? And you kind of dream about your life, the places that I grew up. Then I’m making movies. You know, I’m 18 years old, 19 and I’m, you know, I started out. Really, writing things and interviewing the directors. You know, I was able to see the movies. I just love movies,” Cruise said during the session.
Moreover, Cruise explained his interest in film goes way beyond acting. He’s always been into film history, architecture and music as a way of understanding why some stories work and some don’t. He also spoke about the importance of collaboration, in that a film is the product of people from all different departments working together.
That approach remains absolutely central to his work. Cruise also noted he really does enjoy looking at how people go about their craft and finding new ways of challenging himself with every character and every story. He also remembers coming to the Creative Artists Agency in ’81 with a list of people he wanted to see. It wasn’t just actors and directors he was interested in. He wanted to understand how the whole thing came together.
Before breaking through with films like Risky Business in 1983 and Top Gun in 1986, Cruise made his film debut in the 1981 romantic drama Endless Love.
Cruise noted, “I’m kind of like, you know, I’m now 64 where that was [Paul] Newman’s age when we made The Color of Money. And I remember being that young kid, you know, and I had met Newman before and interviewed him about movies and I’d met Scorsese before when I was a kid. You know, I was actually with CAA.”
The Mission: Impossible star also talked about the value of working with filmmakers who bring a different slant to the storytelling. In talking about his work with Alejandro G. Iñárritu on Digger he described it as yet another opportunity to go into a new creative world.
For Cruise every project is a new chapter rather than just another film in his filmography. “I live on movie sets,” he added, describing the life he’d dreamed of as a kid.
What his comments reveal is that the drive to understand film, to work with great people and to find new ways of telling stories is still very much the essence of his career.
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