Jeff Bridges

I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.

Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

We're here for such a short period of time.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

About 25 years ago, my wife and I bought Kenny Loggins' house in Santa Barbara. It was way out of our price range, but we said, 'Screw it, let's go for it.' We've raised our family there. We overextended ourselves at the perfect time in our lives, and it worked out for the best.

Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.

I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.

It's the same assignment on every part: you want to create a real world, and the tone of it is a little different on each movie. You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.