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Not That It Entirely Matters: There Is A Perception That All Actors Make Their Movies. A Lot Of People Assume You're Responsible. George Clooney Told Me Actors Get All Of The Blame And All The Credit.

But When I Felt Like I Had Something To Prove? Then I Got Up Early Every Morning And Worked All Day Long. I Didn't Know If I Had Any More Talent Than Anyone Else Directing, But I Knew I Could Work Hard At It, And So I Did.

It's Much Nicer To Be Praised Than To Be Damned. But You Have To Have A Certain Sense Of Your Own Priorities And Ideas About What Works And What Doesn't Because Otherwise, If You're Just Looking For Eternal Validation All The Time, You Can Be Motivated By The Wrong Things And I Don't Think It's As Personally Satisfying In Your Own Work.

My Father Has Positional Vertigo, And If He Flies He Gets Really Dizzy, So He Has To Drive Out To California, Which He Does A Couple Times A Year. We Talk, But We E-mail Mostly.

You're Basically The Sum Of All The Experiences You've Ever Had, And They're Sort Of Shaken Up In You And Reproduced In The Things You Create, And That Includes Seeing Movies.