Peter Sarsgaard
Peter Sarsgaard
John Peter Sarsgaardis an American actor. He landed his first feature role in the movie Dead Man Walking in 1995. He then appeared in the 1998 independent films Another Day in Paradise and Desert Blue. That same year, Sarsgaard received a substantial role in The Man in the Iron Mask, playing Raoul, the ill-fated son of Athos. Sarsgaard later achieved critical recognition when he was cast in Boys Don't Cryas John Lotter. He landed his first leading role in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth7 March 1971
CityScott Air Force Base, IL
CountryUnited States of America
To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.
Usually the way I think someone is radicalized is through a personal experience. The thing about environmental activism is that we are all having a personal experience with our environment, whether we open our eyes or not.
Who would I least want to hang out with? Probably John Lotter. I guess I have a place of understanding for everyone I've played.
I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil.
The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are dramatic things happening to them at the moment, and they're worth exploring.
I mean I don't think it got me interested in acting. I think it might be what makes it so that I can have the idea of the variety of people in the world, different incomes. That helps. When you're going to play someone it's interesting and nice to see experiences that aren't like yours. But there's always the remarkable similarity of all people.
Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.
Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.
I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.
I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.
I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.
I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.
If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that don't relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible.
But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film.