Latest Kiefer Sutherland Quotes from Interviews

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• I just always liked the company. The people who hung around her were amazing storytellers, whether it was actors or crew. They were just exciting people. And I knew that they were different when I would go see a friend or stay at someone else's house. It just wasn't as cool. So I always loved the theater, and that's where I started: at a theater up in Canada.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  People, House, Canada

• There are very few films that I've ever seen in my life that would be as silent or vacant as something like Jeremiah Johnson, and that to me was unbelievably captivating. You can see the same about [The Outlaw] Josey Wales: there's very little dialogue, and yet it contains such a deep, rich story. I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Littles, Would Be, Stories

• My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Mother, Home, School

• I think one of the things I was most interested in finding out was how differently we approached our work. And my reality was that we didn't approach it very differently at all, which was funny.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Reality, Thinking, Approach

• The father-son thing, that's a separate thing. This film [Forsaken] was not about that. This was a film about two actors wanting to try and tell a story... and taking advantage of the fact that we looked like a father and son.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Father, Son, Two

• I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Responsibility, Thinking, Years

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

• I had never gone to college, I left school at a really early age, and all of a sudden I've got six really great friends hanging out with me every night. And we were a really tight group, and we just had an absolute blast.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  School, College, Night

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

• If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Opportunity, Thinking, Cinema

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

• I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing with it.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Play, Trying, Kevin

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

• I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Interesting, Lines, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think when you get the opportunity to work with someone like Lars Von Trier... I mean, Alexander Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, just to work with those actors, you take that opportunity when you get it.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Hurt, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Storytelling, Western

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

• I remember being really grateful that David Lynch had actually even thought of casting me, because I was a huge fan of his.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Grateful, Being Real, Fans

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  People, Perception, Tents

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

• What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear friend of mine, Brad Mirman - and he ended up writing a beautiful script. I should've done that a lot earlier.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Beautiful, Writing, Ideas

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

• I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Growing Up, Dad, Play

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

• I've wanted to work with my father for 30 years, and I'm really grateful that I finally had the opportunity, and it ended up - the experience and, I believe, the film - better than I could ever have hoped for.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Father, Grateful, Believe

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

• I think the father-son dynamic is interesting. I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their dad, and I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their son.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Dad, Father, Son

  Source: collider.com

• If you take a look at our natural history, there's always a moment where the young lion wants to challenge the older lion and, inherently, that's going to be problematic, and I don't think we're any different.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Thinking, Challenges, Different

  Source: collider.com

• Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Thinking, Interesting, Different

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• There are certain moments that you have to hit in a film, like when a character cries.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Character, Cry, Film

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• Most of my career I've spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Careers, Nervous

  Source: collider.com