“I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. An...” — Jeremy Renner Quote

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

I want my personal life to be personal.

We are all eternally connected, bound by love and the purest parts of our being, bound by shared history and our innate, unyielding, unchanging energy. These are like superpowers I discovered in those first few moments after the machine crushed me.

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.