未来主义者：走下银幕的《钢铁侠》

    你作为演员在电影行业已经工作近30年了，现在又自己做电影。这个行业发生了哪些变化？未来它又会往何处去？

    我觉得行业在改变，因为我自己也是行业的一分子。作为一个不再是局外人的人看来，就是所有那些预测可以说都是徒劳的。

    我一直喜欢听别人的抱怨，比如有人说“哦，它票房高只是因为海报设计得漂亮”什么的，但是很多事完全不是这样。我觉得过去几年很有意思的是，有些中小预算的电影的确吸引了大量的关注。

    这种变化的原动力往往是某个人利用已有的影响力，然后把它用到另一个不同的方向上。比如我觉得马修•麦康纳今年就是一个很好的例子。《密西西比河上的玛德》（Mud）和《达拉斯买家俱乐部》（Dallas Buyers Club）等片子能有今天这样的地位，如果不是因为马修•麦康纳的缘故，可能就不会有那样的机会和知名度。

    我认为，无论什么时候，谁都没法确切地说，一个行业会走向何方。如果你在十年前说马修•麦康纳会成为2013年最有意思的演员，或者说像我这样的人会站到票房大片的榜首——我相信无论是他，还是我自己，都不会相信。

    话题再回到埃隆•穆斯克。你是特斯拉公司的投资人之一吗？

    有意思的是，当时我有投资的机会，但却没有足够的钱去投资。但是事实上，我这个人在生活的其它方面有时可以说挺大胆的，但是我在投资方面还是极为保守。（财富中文网）

    译者：朴成奎  

    You've worked in film as an actor for almost three decades, and now you're producing movies. How has the industry changed, and where is it going?

    It's changed for me in that I feel I'm part of the furniture, and the thing about being someone no longer on the outside looking in is that all those projections become kind of null and void.

    I always love listening to what people are complaining about. You know, "Oh, it's just driven by these big tent-pole pictures and blah, blah, blah." But there are a lot that flies in the face of that. And I think these last few years have been very interesting in that some of the kind of middle- to smaller-budget films have really gotten a heck of a lot of attention.

    The prime mover usually is an individual who takes the influence they have and applies it in a different direction. I think Matthew McConaughey is a great example of that this year, you know? I think in moving projects like Mud and Dallas Buyers Club into a position where they might not have had kind of opportunities and visibility, they did if not for him, you know?

    I don't know that anyone can accurately say where any industry is going at any time. If you'd said 10 years ago that Matthew Mc¬Conaughey would be the most interesting actor of 2013 or that someone like me would be at the top of the heap for box-office genre movies -- I think neither he nor I would have believed it.

    Back to Elon Musk. Are you an investor in Tesla (TSLA)?

    The funny thing is, I didn't really have the money to invest at the point at which I would have gotten in on the ground floor But you know, the truth be told is for someone who's as kind of let's call it daring on occasion for lack of a better word as I am in other aspects of my life, I'm extremely conservative with my investments.