I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.
Kiefer SutherlandThe writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.
Kiefer SutherlandWhen I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.
Kiefer SutherlandPeople respond to a guy who is trapped and succeeds on some level and fails on another.
Kiefer SutherlandI think when you get the opportunity to work with someone like Lars Von Trier... I mean, Alexander Skarsgรฅrd, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, just to work with those actors, you take that opportunity when you get it.
Kiefer SutherlandThe father-son thing, that's a separate thing. This film [Forsaken] was not about that. This was a film about two actors wanting to try and tell a story... and taking advantage of the fact that we looked like a father and son.
Kiefer SutherlandWesterns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.
Kiefer Sutherland