Bruce Greenwood
Bruce Greenwood
Stuart Bruce Greenwoodis a Canadian actor and producer. He is generally known for his roles as U.S. presidents in Thirteen Days and National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Ben Stevenson in Mao's Last Dancer and for his role as Captain Christopher Pike in the 2009 Star Trek film and its sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness. In television, Greenwood starred as Gil Garcetti in American Crime Story, and has appeared in Mad Men, St. Elsewhere, Knots Landing and John from Cincinnati...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth12 August 1956
CountryCanada
It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.
With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
The concept of endless love is something that we can exercise in all kinds of ways.
I think love courses through all of us, and we can express it to one person all the time, or we can express it to everybody in our world, in our immediate world, in our extended family and all that and to strangers. I think as a concept. I don't mean you and me later.
Things we think of as tremendous advantages can get in the way of being happy, and wealth is one of those things where people can become isolated within this luxury and not connect.
I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.
Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.
I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.
If you want to pontificate, I'm certainly willing to pontificate. That's why Joely was laughing because you don't know what you asked for. Malcolm Gladwell, in his newest book "David and Goliath," writes about how sometimes things that we think of as handicaps often times are just the opposite. Or the reverse is also true.
You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.
Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.
We improv-ed scenes that didn't happen in the movie. We improv-ed the scenes that are written in the movie without the dialogue as written. We played around a lot to try and figure out just how we could flow with what was already written in the story and how we could highlight those imbalances and those points at which we came to loggerheads.
I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.