After making more than 60 films, can an actor predict when one is going to turn out good or not? Kiefer Sutherland, who says he's really excited about only 15 films he has completed, doesn't think so.

The "24" star says, "I saw 'Stand By Me' for the first time and thought my career was over, first time out of the gate, so I'm not the greatest judge, except that I knew I felt great when I was making it."

Consistently mentioning "Dark City," "Flatliners" and "The Lost Boys" in that "favorite" category, Sutherland says that even if a project seems questionable beforehand, he never begins without the best intentions. Sutherland says, "Not one film have I ever walked onto the set the first day and thought, 'This is going to be a piece of crap!' You always have this hope and this faith that this one unit, whatever group comes together, is going to make this thing and it's going to work. The reality is that it's just not like that."

While other actors, such as Katherine Heigl and Matthew Fox, have been able to take advantage of their newfound TV fame by making the jump to the big screen during their annual downtime, a busy "24" schedule has been a major deterrent for Sutherland's cinematic career. The exception is his latest movie, "Mirrors," a horror flick about a former police detective who becomes embroiled in the mystery of a dark soul cursing its victims through their reflections.

Admittedly phobic about spending too much time looking in the mirror himself, Sutherland had to find other ways to make it appear he was doing so. One particularly difficult bathroom scene found him forced to stare at the mirror all day.

"I started finding ways to look in a mirror where I could look off-center, so I couldn't see anything very clearly," Sutherland says. "I'm self-conscious, and that heightened it to a level that I certainly have not experienced. So, that part of it was a real good challenge for me."

At the moment though, Sutherland is focused on playing the popular Jack Bauer again. The "24" production recently spent three weeks in Africa shooting a feature-length, made-for-TV movie that will premiere before the next season, and the actor says it has really energized the creative team. As for whether Bauer's adventures will continue on the small screen or, as many hope, in theaters, Sutherland isn't going to make any promises.

"I think if Brett Favre has taught us anything, it's to never even enter into that," Sutherland jokes. "I love making the show. Season 8 would have to be extraordinary, and we would have to hit a whole different way of telling the story for us to go further, but anything is possible."

"Mirrors" is now playing nationwide.