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 can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.
Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV.
If 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.
People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.
Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard.
My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.
Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.
It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.
I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.
Most 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.
We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is.
Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know.
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.
To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.