On quitting acting in 2009:
“I’d had it with L.A., and I really had it with the business side of acting, the machinery of it all. You’re an artist, but then all of a sudden you’re a product at the same time, and there’s this company that’s sprung up around you. I got depressed. I was losing my love for it. So I said, ‘I’m done.’ I fired everybody and moved my family out here (Callicoon, NY). I had to make a radical move. The Kids Are All Right was my swan song. I didn’t know what I was doing next.”

On struggling to make it as an actor:
“It was brutal. The years are stripping away, but when you talk to anyone from home, you’re saying something like ‘Well, I’m just working on my craft right now,’ when the truth is that I can’t get a f***ing job because no one will hire me. It was humiliating.”

On deciding to continue acting:
What brought Ruffalo back this latest time was sitting in the audience at Sundance, where The Kids Are All Right made its debut in 2010, and, after the first peal of laughter, “watching everyone’s jaded, super cool Hollywood identities melt into the communal experience of filmmaking and storytelling. It reminded me: I’m an actor, and my whole life has been geared towards being an actor.”

On acting in a computer-generated style movie:
Ruffalo makes the counterintuitive connection between motion-capture acting and the theater. “It’s the absolute perfect marriage because it relies on your imagination, your ability to project outside of yourself, to be the watcher and the watched. A stage actor has to be able to do that, because you’re telling the story with your body as much as your face and voice.”

On not training to be The Incredible Hulk:
“No, no, no. Look, I’m eating guacamole and potato chips….You think Tom Cruise does this?”

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Spousal Support
Ruffalo initially passed on the film because he wanted to spend more time with his family – which he apparently neglected to tell his wife, Sunrise. “I was texting with Sunrise,” says Moore, “and she said, ‘Whatever happened with that movie?’ I told her Mark passed because he didn’t want to be away from them anymore. She said, ‘That’s ridiculous! I love that movie. I want him to do it.”

Also in January they published scans from Cahiers du Cinéma’s January 2009 edition which contains a diary from the set of the movie due out October 2. The diary was written by Argentinean filmmaker Celine Murga as she was able to observe the whole of the entire shot as a laureate of the 2008 Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative.

Also, the official site is live, but merely with placeholder information.

Gallery Links
• Shutter Island – Teaser Poster
• Carriere du Cinema – January 2009

• Shutter Island Blu-ray Release
• Movies galleries updated
• Shutter Island Pushed Back

GALLERY LINKS
• Real Men Cry (2008) – Promotional Stills
• Blindness (2008) – Promotional Stills
• The Brothers Bloom (2008) – Promotional Stills
• Marie Claire Brazil September 2008

• Photoshoots update
• “The Kids Are All Right” gallery goodies
• Toronto photos

GQ December 07

• “Date Night” screencaptures
• Photoshoots update
• “In The Cut” screencaptures

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is among the honorees to make GQ’s 2007 Men of the Year list, the New York-based magazine said Tuesday.

GQ said its 12th annual Men of the Year issue will feature three separate covers and hit newsstands nationwide Nov. 27.

Clinton, James Bond actor Daniel Craig and producer/hip-hop artist Kanye West head up this year’s group.

Also making the list are Casey Affleck, Javier Bardem, Brad Bird, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Josh Brolin, David Chang, David Chase, Simon Cowell, John Cusack, Roger Federer, Tom Hanks, Emile Hirsch, Ryan Howard, Lil Wayne, Josh Marshall, James McAvoy, Derek O’Dell, Ron Paul, Alex Rodriguez, Seth Rogen, Mark Ruffalo, Julian Schnabel, Jason Schwartzman, John Smeaton, Channing Tatum, John Varvatos and Shaun White.

• Ruffalo’s Sympathy for Delicious
• Shutter Island opens for Ruffalo