REPORT: Tom Cruise: 'I'm passionate about life'

Actor Tom Cruise talks with 'Today' host Matt Lauer about his new love, new movie and his recent controversial comments

The past few weeks have been full of excitement for Tom Cruise. “Today” host Matt Lauer sat down with the actor and talked about his new love, his new movie, “War of the Worlds,” and the recent firestorm he caused when he commented on Brooke Shield’s use of therapy and drugs to cure her postpartum depression.

Lauer: How are you handling this? I mean every magazine, every newspaper, and every entertainment show. What's it like for you to be living through this right now?

(1)Cruise: It's just a great time in my life. I'm really happy. And, you know, I'm engaged. I'm going to be married. I can't restrain myself.

Lauer: We talk about life in a second. Let's talk about the movie, though. Okay, “War of the Worlds.” I mean, I've always been fascinated by this whole concept, the "we are not alone in a big way," concept. Do you remember your first exposure to it, to the story?

(2)Cruise: I remember, I was a kid. And I heard about the Orson Wells radio play. It was my first exposure to this story.

Lauer: Has it helped the movie?

(2)Cruise: I don't know. You know what? It comes down to the movie. It always comes down to the movie.

In Reported Speech:
(1) Tom Cruise answered that It was just a great time in your life. He was really happy and added that The journalist knew that him. He was had engaged and Tom Cruise said that I was going to be married. I couldn’t restrain yourself.

(2) Tom Cruise answered that he remembered, He had been a kid. And He had heard about the Orson Wells radio play. It had been your first exposur to that story.

(3) Tom Cruise answered that he didn’t know and asked to the periodist if He know what? And he added It cames down to the movie and He said It always cames down to the movie.

BY KEVIN CASTILLO