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I Saw Leaving College As An Opportunity To Do Something Different With My Life. I Always Thought That Becoming An Academic Was Going To Be My Path.

I Had To Take My Makeup Off At Work Every Night. I Wasn't Allowed To Do It At Home Because My Mom Said That When Your Work Day Is Done, You're Done With Work.

I Feel At Various Times In My Life That I've Been At A Point Where I Had To Choose Between A Death Sentence And A Life Sentence. And I Want To Live. What Do I Do To Live? What Do I Do To Be Vital? And The Answer Is Always Creativity.

I Don't Know If You've Ever Seen Some Of The Sidney Lumet Movies, Like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] Or Network [1976]. They're Real Events That Happen In Real Time, And There Are All Of These Different Characters Experiencing The Same Thing In Different Parts Of The Movie ... I Am So Bad At Explaining My Films. But It's In The World Of Finance And The World Of Media, And How They Connect. It Was A Big Undertaking. A Big, Mainstream Movie, Which Stars Julia Roberts And George Clooney. But For Me, It's Really Just A Small Story About Character And People.

In A Weird Way, That's The Beauty Of Being An Actor. You Get To Live Out Things That You're Afraid Of, And You Get To Say, 'well, Maybe I Can Get To The End Of It And Survive It Intact And I Can Be The Hero Of My Own Story.' It's Kind Of A Way Of Exorcising Fear.