BURBANK, Calif. — When he steps in front of the camera, Tom Cruise wants two things: To challenge himself and to give audiences a movie-going experience they’ll be talking about long after they leave the theatre. Ever since booking his first major role in 1981s military school drama Taps, Cruise, now 64, has worked to channel a lifelong obsession with movies by working with influential directors like Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Michael Mann, J. J. Abrams, Doug Liman, Robert Redford, Sydney Pollack, Joseph Kosinski, Christopher McQuarrie and more.