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Tom Cruise bemoans young actors’ lack of technical knowledge

Film schools should teach editing and camerawork to help performers get the most out of cinema, Hollywood star says

Cruise said that ever since his breakthrough in the early 1980s he had devoted himself to “understanding the tools, the camera, the story structure … the conveying of emotions”, adding that he had studied and listened to greats such as Nicholson and Paul Newman. Cruise also spoke of a formative experience early in his career when a highly acclaimed supporting role in 1981 police thriller Taps was setting him on the road to stardom while he was also making a flop, Losin’ It. The granting of a fellowship to Cruise by the BFI — joining the likes of David Lean, Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles and Martin Scorsese — is in part tribute to his loyalty to Britain, which he chose as the shooting location for much of the Mission: Impossible franchise.

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