????你還會(huì)再出一張專輯嗎？

????當(dāng)然。藝壇的跨界通常是“演而優(yōu)則唱”，不過現(xiàn)在這種情況可能不像以前那么普遍了。但是我們?cè)絹?lái)越經(jīng)常在電影里看到音樂人的身影。比如我在電影《音樂拯救人生》（Can a Song Save Your Life?）里看到了魔力紅樂隊(duì)的主唱亞當(dāng)?李維，然后我給他打了電話，跟他交上了朋友，因?yàn)槲乙庾R(shí)到他就是一個(gè)可以實(shí)現(xiàn)這種轉(zhuǎn)換的人。我沒有看過賈斯汀?汀布萊克參演的《醉鄉(xiāng)民謠》（Inside Llewyn Davis），但我聽說(shuō)他也可以做到這一點(diǎn)。

????現(xiàn)在這個(gè)時(shí)代，作為信息時(shí)代的副產(chǎn)品，你可能不用費(fèi)太大力氣就能玩一把跨界——只要你能做得好。至于我自己，我從小就愛唱歌、作曲、搞音樂劇，我總想有朝一日寫一出音樂劇。我在作曲或執(zhí)行上一直有點(diǎn)笨，玩樂器也不是特別擅長(zhǎng)，但我的詞寫得夠好，而且唱得也不賴。

????你有一家名叫Team Downey的制片公司，你對(duì)這家公司的愿景是什么？你和你妻子蘇珊怎樣看你們?cè)谶@家公司的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)角色？

????我認(rèn)識(shí)蘇珊之前，她的制片事業(yè)就已經(jīng)發(fā)展得非常好，后來(lái)她開始參與我主演的電影的制片。后來(lái)我倆發(fā)現(xiàn)，我倆真正想做的是一起做自己的電影，這個(gè)想法讓我們興奮不已。我們剛剛一起制作了一部名叫《審判》（Judge）的電影，明年秋天就會(huì)推出。我倆經(jīng)常討論我們共同喜愛的那一百部電影。我們的愿景就是，我們希望我們自己制作的電影也能做到像那些片子一樣。而且我們發(fā)現(xiàn)，我倆對(duì)電影的感覺也非常一致。

????這種感覺就像一個(gè)風(fēng)投資本家對(duì)一個(gè)大一點(diǎn)的公司的感覺一樣。我們已經(jīng)和制片公司華納兄弟（Warner Brothers）建立了合作關(guān)系。我們不僅不想讓華納兄弟損失一分錢，還想讓他們覺得我們是最能讓他們賺到錢的人之一，另外他們也非常欣賞我們的藝術(shù)品味。

????過去十年左右的時(shí)間里，我聽說(shuō)做電影也是能速成的。有時(shí)間我會(huì)告訴你，這樣做是最糟糕的，因?yàn)閺哪撤N程度上這就是以身試火，非常徒勞。

????我認(rèn)為做制片公司的光榮之處就是，你要非常在乎怎樣幫別人實(shí)現(xiàn)他們的目標(biāo)，這和當(dāng)一個(gè)以自我為中心的演員恰恰相反。

????當(dāng)你把亞當(dāng)?李維這樣的人召集起來(lái)時(shí)，你是想通過Team Downey為自己物色人才嗎？

????我知道我終于拿到了入場(chǎng)券，可以通過這個(gè)公司創(chuàng)造點(diǎn)什么。我注意到許多成功的人和幸運(yùn)的人，他們都不怕走出自己的“舒適區(qū)”，勇于拿起電話聯(lián)系別人，而且我想對(duì)方大概也不介意和他們聊一聊。

????這種感覺有點(diǎn)像上高中的時(shí)候，你不想在通訊錄上看著某人的名字時(shí)戰(zhàn)戰(zhàn)兢兢地想：“還是晚點(diǎn)再打吧”。我還發(fā)現(xiàn)，如果你在任何一個(gè)行業(yè)干得比較杰出的話，一個(gè)最大的好處就是，你和別人總是可以有某種關(guān)聯(lián)，而且我發(fā)現(xiàn)我與別人主動(dòng)聯(lián)系得還不夠。我經(jīng)常在腦子里想象和別人對(duì)話的場(chǎng)景，但實(shí)際上我一般不太主動(dòng)去結(jié)識(shí)別人。我正在努力改變這一點(diǎn)，因?yàn)槲矣X得人們生活中幾乎所有新的冒險(xiǎn)都是從這兒來(lái)的。

????Would you make another album?

????Sure. The crossover, usually from cinema to music, is taken less favorably than perhaps it used to be. Yet there are some iconic people who are music entertainers appearing in film more regu?larly. I saw [Maroon 5 singer] Adam Levine in Can a Song Save Your Life? and I called him and befriended him because I real?ized that he's one of those people who can make that transition. Justin Timberlake I haven't seen Inside Llewyn Davis, but I hear that he can, too.

????But I think this is just a time when the borders, probably a byproduct of the information age, the borders are -- you can blur them without as much squelch or as much feedback as you might -- provided you do it well. As far as for my own explanation, I was raised singing in madrigals and composing music and doing musicals off-Broadway and have been, you know, thinking about writing a musical for some time. So I mean, I've kind of always been -- I'm a little bit stupid when it comes to composition or execution, and I'm not a very good player, but I write well enough and I can sing pretty well.

????You have a production company, Team Downey. What is your vision for it, and how do you and Susan think about your roles as leaders of that organization?

????Susan had a perfectly sound (producing) career before we met, and she started producing the films I was starring in. And then the real aha moment was when we decided what we really would like to do is develop our own material do to together. And we had just had our first experience with that in this film called Judge, which will be out next fall. And our vision has always been we kind of tend to like and talk about the same hundred movies when we're referring to films we would like the films we're doing to be like. And so we realized we had a very kind of simpatico sensibility.

????Ultimately really it comes down to it's kind of like being a venture capitalist for a bigger organization in that, you know, we are in a relationship with a studio (Warner Brothers) and not only do we not want to lose them a penny, we want them to feel that we're one of their great earners, and also that they really appreciate our sensibilities artistically.

????What I've had over the last decade or so is a crash course in producing, which on some days I would tell you is the absolute worst job in the world because certain aspects of it are like being a volunteer fire person. And it's very thankless.

????There's -- I guess the glory in it is that you're someone who really cares about helping other people achieve their goals. And so it's been the exact opposite of being a kind of a self-centered actor.

????When you call up someone like Adam Levine, are you looking at talent through the lens of Team Downey?

????Some part of me knows that there's an entrée by virtue of the fact that I actually have an entity where we could develop something. But the real this is, you know, and I think one of the keys to me that I notice with people who are -- kind of make their own luck and are fortunate people and tend to do well is they do step out of their comfort zone, and they do put in a phone call to someone that they're I guess more than likely imagining wouldn't mind speaking to them either.

????It's still kind of like high school in a way. You know, you wonder -- like you never want to wind up on someone's phone sheet as a you know, "later." Or, like, priority three. But I also think that one of the great things about being in any industry where you have any prominence whatsoever is that you have -- there's a supposed kind of connectedness, you know? And I find that I really don't reach out enough. You know, I think about people and I have a conversation with them in my head, but I don't -- I tend to not like reach out and want to make new connections. And it's something that I've been efforting to change because I think that that's where all the new adventures in people's lives come from.