Tom Cruise: Kosinski is such a talent.

Tom Cruise admires director Joseph Kosinski's ability to 'create other worlds'.
The actor stars in sci-fi adventure Oblivion, alongside Morgan Freeman and Olga Kurylenko.
Working with such a talented director was an incentive for Tom to join the film about a man's mission to extract Earth's remaining resources.
'Joe is someone who creates other worlds, and his vision for Oblivion is what interested me. I’ve never seen anything like it: the way that he wanted to direct it and all the elements that were involved,' the 50-year-old gushed to Flicks and Bits.
'Although I haven’t made a sci-fi film since Minority Report, I love the genre and I knew that Joe works well in it. And what I love about Joe, who I think is a visionary filmmaker, is that he can make a very personal story, but put it in a massive landscape with epic stakes. Literally the fate of the world is at stake. Also, I just loved the stories unique twists and turns, which happen all the way up to the very last frame of the movie.'
Tom was also excited about working with some of his heroes for Oblivion.
The star particularly enjoyed his scenes with movie veteran Morgan.
'Oh man, that was great. I met Morgan Freeman in 1990 when both of us were nominated for Oscars. I was nominated for Born on the Fourth of July and he was for Driving Miss Daisy,' he recalled.
'I so admired him, and I remember that night at the Oscars how I was looking forward to saying hello and telling him how much I loved him in the movie and we both said we should work together sometime. I’m sad it took so many years before this occurred [laughs], but I’m happy to have had the opportunity to work with him. He’s a wonderful man, and he’s an extraordinary actor. We had a great cast on this film.'
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Michelangelo Enlisted to Help Deter Youth Crime in Italy

ROME — Michelangelo's art might help deter Italian youths from a life of crime, the interior minister said Monday, praising the loan of a drawing by the Renaissance master to a school in a rough suburb of Naples.
"To fight organised crime, police work is essential, but it is not enough: to win this battle, it is necessary to awaken the conscience," Interior Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri said.
"Works by great artists have the capacity to convey emotions, especially among the youngest," she added at a Rome news conference unveiling the initiative.
The red pencil drawing "Study for the Head of Leda", to be loaned to the school by the Casa Buonarroti foundation of Florence, will go on display from April 24 to June 2, organisers said.
Casavatore has in recent years seen an upsurge in mafia gang violence in a turf war over the drugs trade in the relatively poor southern city.
Naples authorities and two cultural organisations are behind the project to lend the sketch of the head of Leda -- a figure from Greek mythology who was raped by Zeus in the form of a swan -- to the school.
"This drawing is not only beautiful, it was drawn as Michelangelo was fighting for freedom and justice," said Casa Buonarroti director Pina Ragionieri.
Geppino Fiorenza, a spokesman for anti-mafia group Libera, said "beauty creates ethics, which are essential to fighting the mafia".
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