I Can't Not Have Something Attached To

As A Producer, You Have An Opportunity To See The Whole And Bring People Together.

I Don't Think I've Made A Mistake. I Think I Have Behaved In Ways That I Am Proud Of; I Think I've Behaved In Ways I'm Not.

Ang Lee Just Allowed Me To Make What We Would Call Mistakes And Had No Judgment Of Them. He Also Empowered Me. You Know, He's Like, "you're My Actor. I Chose You. Whatever You Do Is Right." Right? "i Made The Decision, I'm Complicit In Choosing You. And I Went Through Everything I Could To Choose You, So I Feel Good And Whatever You're Going To Do I'm Going To Give You This Space." And So It Was Very Empowering.

Working With Robert, Robert [elswit] Is A Storyteller. He's Not A Cinematographer, He's A Storyteller. And To Me, That's The Graduation I Hope To Get To In My Profession. That I'm Not Just An Actor, I'm A Storyteller. And I Think That Takes A Long Time In, When You Have One Job On A Movie Set. Makeup Artists, Actor, Whatever. To Graduate From Just That To Storyteller.

I Could Draw Ideas. I Remember Writing A Paper For A Seminar Class. I Remember Writing A Paper About - And This Is Going To Sound Really Sort Of Pretentious, But That's Where My Mind Was At The Time - How Acting And The Performing Artist Can Really Be Like A Bodhisattva, How They Can Communicate Ultimately An Idea In A Way That Can Move And Shift Things. And That Was Wonderful. I Didn't Know Many Classes Where I Could Try And Relate The Thing That I Really Loved And Wanted To Do Into An Intellectual Idea, And That Happened To Be One Of Them.