What keeps Tom Cruise relevant after 30 years in Hollywood? Take this hint from his Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol director Brad Bird: "You look at the directors he's worked with [...] It's a who's who. Scorsese and Kubrick and Spielberg and Oliver Stone -- when Oliver Stone was making better movies -- and Michael Mann and Sydney Pollack and on and on and on. It's kind of stunning. Not every one of them was a great movie, but he's worked with great directors over and over again, and you can engage him in those conversations." Or Paul Thomas Anderson. Or Ridley Scott. Or Brian De Palma. Or John Woo. Or Neil Jordan. Isn't Quentin Tarantino hiring at the moment? Let's make that happen. [LAT]
