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Joel Edgerton doesn’t worry how his movies perform at the box office.<\/p>\n
The 51-year-old actor is currently promoting Train Dreams, the Clint Bentley-directed drama movie which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and Joel loves that the project is still gaining momentum ten months after it premiered.<\/p>\n
He explained to The Hollywood Reporter: “The movie\u2019s so universal, and if people are patient enough to watch it or enough people tell them they should watch it, it\u2019ll have an audience.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019d be the worst studio executive of all time because to me, it\u2019s about the longevity of cinema for all time. One of my favourite stories in my life is Warrior, and I know that Lionsgate was probably annoyed at the time. It didn\u2019t make any money. But now, more than any of my movies, when I\u2019m at an airport travelling, people come up to me [for it] \u2014 that movie gets continually watched and passed around and is standing the test of time.<\/p>\n
“If a movie holds up and lasts and continues to speak to people 10, 20, 30 years in the future, that\u2019s the palette of movies that I want to look back on and go, ‘I was involved in that.’<\/p>\n
“Whether they make money on opening weekend, unless some of that money\u2019s going in my bank account, I really don\u2019t care that much.”<\/p>\n
Joel wants his projects to be watched by as many people as possible. However, he doesn’t care how long it takes for his films to gather momentum.<\/p>\n
The actor explained: “I want as many people as possible to watch the movies that I do. If that\u2019s in the first week, great. But if it\u2019s over 15 years, then it\u2019s almost more of a compliment to the movie than [the box office] just going bananas on the first weekend.”<\/p>\n
Joel is also happy to appear in movies that operate on a “smaller budget”.<\/p>\n
He said: “I feel like I\u2019ve got something to provide on a smaller scale of filmmaking.<\/p>\n
“I could definitely find my place and plug into a bigger scale movie, but maybe it\u2019s my ego that says that I\u2019ll get to participate more in the creative pursuit if I\u2019m doing something at a smaller budget \u2014 whether I\u2019m directing it or helping produce it or occupying the screen. But there\u2019s another thing going on. I got to a certain age and I could look back on all the work I\u2019ve done that I never thought I would ever get done \u2014 I\u2019ve managed to work for a long time and on an array of different things.<\/p>\n
“But when I wanted access to it all those years ago, I wished I had access to people to help me, teach me how to get there faster, help me get the movies I wanted made.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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