Tom Cruise says the rumors about how intensely he works are true “People that work with me, they know I expect a lot and I'm upfront about it. It's like, the rumors are true and do you want this?” Zach Baron: “But do you say that?” Tom: “Yes. If we're there, I'm like, trust me, the rumors are true. I'll be here before you” “What experience do you want? And I'm very open and it's not like we don't have a plan. We have scripts. We have plans. We're going through it, but I also feel the level of responsibility for everyone” Zach: “Do you feel like you're understood when you say this stuff, that people get it?” Tom: “There's things that I didn't say for many years. I know the people I work with, we all kind of feel the same thing. We want to do well. We want to understand why do things work? Why don't they work?” “When you start doing something, I'm an all in kind of guy, Zach. I don't know what to say. Life, I'm coming right at it. It's coming at me and I'm coming right at it. I'm 100%. I am not a halfway kind of person”

Tom Cruise says he jumped off a roof at four years old after making a parachute out of his bedsheets “Zach, that's exactly it. I want to say in its simplicity, to me, and it's always been that's life. Now, I want to train so I can open the parachute. You know what I mean?” “When I was a kid, I took the monkey bars, I pulled it over and my mom was in the thing and I had this GI Joe. You know, you throw it up. I've told this story before” “A parachute goes down, ripped the sheets off my bed, took ropes, and I climb the monkey bar, climb up on the roof, climb up on the high bar, and I jumped off” “Didn't work, so you want to go, at that moment, I remember I was about four years old. I was like, there's something more to this than this” “Went back, looked at my GI Joe. I was like, okay, I don't understand this, but I'm not doing that again, but I'm going to figure it out one day” Zach Baron: “And you did”

Tom Cruise says he does not fear death after riding motorcycles off cliffs and hanging from airplanes Zach Baron: “You have literally ridden a motorcycle off the edge of a cliff, and then deployed a parachute. You've hung off the side of multiple different styles of airplane. My question to you is, do you fear death?” Tom: “Look, I think you could look at my life and go, I like standing on the edge of a cliff physically and metaphorically, meaning I look at life as an adventure and I always have” “I want to understand people. I want to understand life and cultures and if I wonder what are those people? How do they feel? Do they think the way I do? Do they laugh at the same thing? How do I connect with them?” Zach: “I asked if you feared death. I mean, I do think that mortality has become, particularly in the ‘Mission’ films, I think audiences are actually watching to see, like, is this guy going to be okay?” Tom: “But here's the thing, how do we use these tools to create an emotional effect on an audience and is it communicating what we want to communicate? So do I fear death? No, I don't” “It's not like I'm not afraid. I don't mind the feeling. I understand life has certainties and uncertainties and in making movies and living life, what interests me is, let's move the uncertainties more into the certainties, but I want to create other uncertainties so that we're moving forward and it's part of the adventure of it”

Charles Leclerc says he accidentally stumbled into a Ferrari test at Paul Ricard and got Michael Schumacher to sign his racing suit "But also for me it was very, very special to see him. I also had the chance to meet him" "I was in Paul Ricard and there's a karting track and a Formula 1 track, and we had no idea that Ferrari would be testing that day" "I had never asked an autograph to anybody else, but that day I remember hearing the sound of the Formula 1 engine and we went to the track" "We were lucky enough to be let in. And I asked Michael to sign my suit" "I still have that picture actually, and this was a very, very special moment"

Charles Leclerc says his manager held talks over other F1 opportunities before he re-signed with Ferrari Host: "Given everything you've just said, did you negotiate with other teams? How seriously did you think about a life outside of the red team?" Charles: "For that, I think I'm also lucky to be in the position where I've got my manager, and my manager is here to let me know about what are the other opportunities, what's going on around" "And so I didn't have any personal talks, but my manager did" "I mean, it's his job to be honest with me and to give me the full picture of what's going on in the paddock and what opportunities we might have" "So yes, there were other opportunities, but at the end of the day, we sat down with Ferrari and we made it happen quite quickly"

Charles Leclerc says police stopped him on the motorway after his 2019 Monza win because they wanted his autograph "I remember on the Monday coming back home, I got stopped by the police on the motorway and they had this newspaper where I was the first of the newspaper, where they wanted me to sign it, and I was like, 'Oh, that's really cool'" "It was the first time that this will ever happen to me in my life" "And then when I stopped making fuel, I went to pay into the shop and there was all this newspaper and I was on the first of many of those" "So there, of course, you realize this is not normal, and it was probably the first time of my life that I will see that, and that was very, very special"

Tim Robbins says Clint Eastwood shot Mystic River with one take per setup and had the cast out by 2 PM every day "There's not a lot of bells and whistles on the set. There's no, 'Rolling!' and, 'Action!' It's all just very quiet, very zen-like from the moment you walk on the set" "And you also know, as Clint has told you, 'We're not gonna do a lot of takes. We're gonna do one take of each setup'" "That's what you get. You get one shot at each setup. That means you have three chances of playing the scene, one in the wide, one in the mid, and one in the tight. That's it, and personally, I did a second take on maybe two setups" "That's the discipline going in. And so the night before, as actors, we're rehearsing. We're ready. We're getting ready. We know every word perfectly" "We're not gonna go to the set and say, 'Hey, Clint, I think about this. What about if this happened?' That never happened" "So we were in at 9 AM and out by 2 PM every day. It was beautiful. It was efficient"

Tim Robbins says a two-and-a-half-hour Clash mosh pit nearly got him fired on his second day of shooting St. Elsewhere "I didn't know it was a big deal at the time, because I was mostly interested in doing theater, but this one seemed to have a really good script, and so I did it, and did my first day of shooting" "My second day of shooting was the day after The Clash were playing at the Palladium in Hollywood, and that was my favorite group" "I got tickets, and I got in the mosh pit, and went hard for two and a half hours, went home, went to sleep, and overslept" "I was really late for my second day at work. Kids out there, don't do that ever, even if it's The Clash" "I was told later, by Bruce Paltrow, 'You know, I would've fired you if you hadn't shot that first day'" "It was a huge learning lesson for me. It was basically asking me, 'Are you gonna be serious about this or not?'" "It was a good experience to have early on, because it taught me a tremendous amount about the professionalism of the business, of the dedication and hard work that crews do, and the respect that you owe them by showing up on time"