| | Joel Schumacher Director, Batman Forever "I hate metaphysical mumbo jumbo, but you know when people say other people are old souls?" "There’s just something about Val. . ." 
"I’ve never talked to Val about anything, even just his observations about mutual friends, where he doesn’t have some kind of abstract angle."
"What I said to you before that I don’t know anybody like Val, that’s what I meant. When I talk to him, I feel like I’m not talking to somebody who’s in the same universe as everybody else. And I mean that as a compliment."
"If I were to guess, I would think that Val’s survival instinct forced him to be as involved as he is with acting craft, because with his looks he could have been very easily thought of just a fox, just a pretty boy. . . He will continue to grow as an actor, because he’s really got his craft."
"Val has this mysterious edge about him. He also has an erotic intensity that can be both sinister and seductive. It makes my job as director a lot easier to be able at work with that energy." | Debroah Kara Unger Actress, The Salton Sea "Val is one of the few authentic transformational actors out there." 
"He’s not at all selfish. He serves the story, and that’s not common with actors of his clout."
"He reminds me of the kid who said, 'The emperor has no clothes,' and that’s what pisses people off about him. He’s not afraid to say that, although I think he understands how much people don’t like him saying that. Therein, he’s exceedingly valuable. There’s so many sycophants and spineless, manipulative people who use the art of storytelling through the medium of film just to fulfill and accelerate their own selfish journeys, that someone like Val could, indeed piss-off because Val really loves storytelling and he understands the value of storytelling." |
| | | | Tom Sizemore Actor True Romance, Heat, Red Planet 
"Never have I heard so much crap about an actor I had such a good time with. It's all bull. He doesn't explain himself to people, so people talk." "We are very good friends. One of the reasons I took (Red Planet) was to work with Val because I think he is one of the best actors we have and I know that first-hand from working with him. If Val’s guilty of anything he’s guilty of being a perfectionist. . . But insofar as there being problems between Val and me, there never were any problems. It was made up." "My drug addiction, which is now five years in the past - some people just won’t let that go. I got clean June 1, 1995. I have been clean since, but you know the press doesn’t give a (darn) if it can sell their stupid (publications). ' "You know 'Drug Addict Tom Sizemore and Batboy Actor Val Kilmer Won’t Act Together!' What a bunch of bull." | Brian Grazer Producer, Real Genius 
"He definitely has an aura. He would just evaporate. No one could find him." | | Phillip Noyce Director, The Saint 
"I’d love to work with him again. Relations with Val on The Saint I can only describe as peachy, sweet and ripe and all that." "Working with Val made me wonder about the people who were telling the stories, rather than the actual stories themselves. He was thoroughly professional.The one complaint I would have about him, is that he asked too many questions and had too many suggestions and was too obsessive. . . " "Those are qualities that, perhaps in a 'sensitive' director, could lead you to say he’s trouble. But he certainly wasn’t trouble to me. Maybe it’s my crocodile Australian skin." "Val loves playing somebody else. It’s why he immerses himself so completely in a role." |
| | Jim Carrey Actor, Batman Forever Asked to sum up Val in one sentence:
"The man! The hair! The lips!" 
Comparing Val to Keaton in Batman role:
"I think he’s just a little more. . . virile. He’s very less-is-more. He just gives you enough to make you feel there’s something beating underneath." | | Vincent D'Onofrio Actor, The Salton Sea "Every time someone warns me about some actor who’s difficult, they turn out to be the most talented one on the set." 
| | Patricia Kennealy-Morrison Film Advisor, The Doors 
On first seeing Val as Jim Morrison: ". . .I catch a sight of Jim in front of me, down the hall to Oliver’s office. His back is to me, and though I know well that it is, of course, only Val Kilmer, apparently already deep in character for the part, I say slowly and quietly to myself, 'Ohhhh my GODDD -' From a rear elevation he is perhaps two inches too tall. His hair is maybe three inches too short and several shades too light; but all the rest is right on the money; the walk. The posture, the clothes, above all else, the air. And there in the dim hall where no one can see me, I begin to shake." | Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson Actor, Streets of Blood, Gun What was it like working with Val Kilmer? "Amazing!" 
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