Tommy Lee Jones Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve.”

“My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.”

“As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.”

“Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.”

“If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.”

“My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.”

“Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.”

“The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.”

“Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.”

“I love cinema.”