All of it except for a couple of shots. Then I'd jump in and get the final pounding, as it were. Just don't tell us what you're gonna do. Just do it. P erhaps the biggest risk of all for Cruise was to undertake such an ambitious production in his first attempt at producing.
Cruise describes being a producer as a real learning process.
But I've been making movies for so long as an actor that there's a lot of shortcuts I can take, because I know how to get there. I found that I could apply that to producing very quickly, and I think it helped us save a lot of money production-wise. When you're dealing with such big set pieces and a big movie, you can see how you could just be hanging on, as opposed to steering the machine. But Cruise and Wagner had the right instinct in hiring De Palma, who is undeniably one of the most brilliant cinematic technicians of modern times. Also instrumental was Wagner, whose responsibilities included taking the lead on the producing end of things when Cruise needed to concentrate on his function as the film's lead performer.