Thomas Jane
Thomas Jane
Thomas Janeis an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and comic book writer. He has appeared in films such as Padamati Sandhya Ragam, At Ground Zero, The Crow: City of Angels, Boogie Nights, The Last Time I Committed Suicide, Thursday, The Thin Red Line, Deep Blue Sea, Dreamcatcher, The Punisher, The Mistand Mutant Chronicles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth22 February 1969
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
I find that as a kid, I could take much more violence, blood, guts, and gore, and you could bring it on and nothing was too shocking for me as a kid or teenager. And now, I'm at 35 and my tolerance for that stuff is much less. As I grow older and closer to the grave, that stuff becomes more and more disturbing to me.
There's a fine line for me between character acting and leading man acting - the best is a combination of the two.
Our agency is community based, so we have tried to adapt to fit the needs of the community. We are not the same as we were 40 years ago.
It allowed me to explore beats of the play in an academic environment where there is a lot of feedback.
Build your own pigeonhole! I subscribe to that philosophy.
I'd like to say as I get older, I try to move toward more sophisticated - more complex - material, but that's just not true. As I get older and more mature - as I started to mature as an actor and an artist - I start looking for stories that are really simple... simply told, straightforward stories that don't make any pretenses about what they are, or ones that are couched in other things to give you permission to enjoy them.
We always need more tutors, because there are students who are waiting for a tutor to help them improve their reading, writing, math, or basic computer skills.
It was a great experience. It helped me clarify a few things.
It's kind of true that they just start making the same movie over and over again. It's also true that the times dictate what kind of movies get made and what kind are not. So I'm always looking for something that's a little fresh and something that I haven't seen before.
To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.
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.
Your inner life has to be rich enough that it's going to translate onto celluloid without you having to do anything. That's my favorite kind of acting, and that's also the hardest to do. And it's also the most underappreciated.
As a kid, I fell in love with the EC Comics from the '50s. It was illegal to produce horror and science fiction in the state of New York because of EC Comics. They just went over the line. Their covers were hangings and brutal stabbings.
Guys who get nominated are guys that talk with a lisp or walk with one leg, or have been hit in the head one too many times, and don't have any parents. And that's great. That's very flashy. And you'll win an Oscar.