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Life As A Performance Is Just A Way To Look At Life Choices As Character Choices. Every Morning You Choose What To Wear, You Choose How To Wear Your Hair, You Choose Your Friends, You More Or Less Choose Your Profession, And How Hard You Will Work At It. Those Are All Things That An Actor Decides About His Character When He Is Performing, And They Are Things That We Decide In Life. We Create Our "character."

I Was Being Generous. Gia Coppola Wasn't Even A Filmmaker At That Time, But I Asked Her To Do It, Because I Believed In Her As An Artist. And Because I Wanted A Woman's Take On The Material. The Book Palo Alto Is Very Male-centric, But Gia Carved Out A Bunch Of The Female Characters, And Brought Them To The Fore In The Movie. And The Project Was Richer For It.

If You Just Read The Book, You're Taking In The Narrative, You're Taking In The Characters, You're Understanding It In A Certain Way. If You Make A Movie It's Really An Act Of Translation.

If I'm Working On A Film, I'll Do Sit-ups For Before I Shoot. Like, 100 In The Morning Or Something.

If This Is The Only Life, Then Why I’m Not Just Doing Everything I Want To Do.