The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

Other notable films in recent years have included A. His high school yearbook predicted "With characteristics such as these you might even see him on Broadway. After playing a diversity of character roles in the following decade Hurt earned his fourth Academy Award nomination for his supporting performance in David Cronenberg's crime thriller A History of Violence (2005).

Hurt made his film debut as a troubled scientist in the science-fiction feature Altered States (1980) for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year. After playing a diversity of character roles in the following decade Hurt earned his fourth Academy Award nomination for his supporting performance in David Cronenberg's crime thriller A History of Violence (2005).