I Think It's A Style Of Acting

There Is No Best Anything In Art. Phillip [hoffman] Isn't Better Than Heath [ledger]; Joaquin [phoenix] Isn't Better Than David [strathairn] Or Terence [howard]. They Aren't Better Than Me. We All Do Different Things. It's More Of A Celebration Of A Lot Of Great Work Than To Give The Gold To Somebody. The Underappreciated Factor Certainly Has Gone Away.

Comedy Is Hard To Do. All The Cliches About It Are True.

You Can't Rewrite Nothing, But You Can Rewrite 90 Pages Of Sh*t. Now You've Got Your Sh*t On The Page, You Can Go Work.

On Indies It's Hard To Do, But In Rehearsals, You Make Mistakes In Rehearsal. It's Really Hard Rehearsing A Play Or What Rehearsal You Get On Any Movie. That's Where You Get To Make Your Mistakes, And You Make Big Ones. So When You Shoot [the Movie] Or You Finally Get The Play In Shape And Do It, The Mistakes Are Out Of The Way. If You're Not Afraid To Make Mistakes, Then There Is No Writer's Block Or Actor's Block.

And That's One Thing That Helps Me Is I Learn It Blandly, Vanilla, Then I Don't Try To Act It Too Soon Because You Start To Act It, And You Kind Of Go Away From What The Next Sentence Is, What The Next Paragraph Is. So Get It Down So It Kind Of Can - It's In There So You Can Then, As I Call It, Dance On Top Of It.