God Is A Luxury I Can't Afford.

I Always Treat Each Take As A Rehearsal For The Next Take. That Way You Can Find Stuff And Keep Adding And Playing Until They Tell Me To Stop

People Are In Denial All The Time, Hiding Things. If I Tell You A Racist Or Dirty Joke And You Laugh, You're Telling Me Something About Yourself, Which You Don't Want To Reveal. Accessing That Hidden Side Is What Good Acting Is All About. And There Are Only A Handful Of People In The Entire United States Who Interest Me As Actors, Who Surprise Me. Even People Who Write About It, Don't Know Anything About Good Performance. At Least When You Work At General Motors, You Know Something About Cars.

The Actor Has To Have Some Degree Of Craft, Along With The Talent. No One Tries To Laugh Except Bad Actors. No One Tries To Cry Except Bad Actors. How A Character Hides His Feelings Tells Us Who He Is. Most People Don't Know That, And Most Actors Don't Do That. Therefore, There Are A Lot Of Actors Who Put Me To Sleep, That Are Considered Good Actors, But They're Predictable And Boring. I Know How The Scene Is Going To End Before It Ends.

An Awful Lot Of Actors Who Are Considered Very Good Actors Are Not Very Good Actors. There Are People Who Just Strike Gold, They Have Intrinsic Talent, But The Point Is That If They Did Train, It Would Not Inhibit Them. If They Were With A Good Teacher, It Would Only Broaden Them More.

Any Good Director Creates A Playground. That's What They Do. They Hire The Right Actor, Open The Door And Let Them Play Because Stuff Will Happen, Right Then And There. The Audience Wants To Believe That What's Going On Is Happening For The First Time, Ever. That's What Acting Is. That's What Good Scene Writing Is.