I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.
Thomas JaneIf I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.
Thomas JaneMost actors have a process that they can go through, that they rely on, or that they've discovered, and that can evolve from project to project.
Thomas JaneI don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.
Thomas JaneIt's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.
Thomas JaneStuff that happens to you in your life when you're shooting a TV show, you have to be careful, because it might end up in the show. And that's what I think is the neat thing about TV: how alive it is, and how the writers respond to the stimulus that they're getting from the actual actors. Whereas a movie is more hermetically sealed.
Thomas Jane