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Joe Morton
American
Actor
About the author
If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Age
#Skill
James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Technology
#Movies
One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Affleck is a friend, so it would be fun to work with him again.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Work
#Fun
#Friend
There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Culture
#Perspective
When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Want
#Years
#Play
#Determination
With my background, I came out of the theater.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Theater
The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Character
#Months
#Advice
#Actors
If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Career
Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Love
#People
#Work
#Play
#Being
#Movies
#Business
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Science
#Fact
#Fiction
I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#People
#Feet
I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#People
#World
#Fact
Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Job
#Attention
#Actor
I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Needs
#Culture
#Drugs
Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Want
#Will
#Play
#Actors
I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Love
#Movies
#Theatre
I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Time
#Choices
Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Film
#Television
#Job
#Theater
I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.
Joe Morton,
American
Actor
#Love
#Play