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When You Have Children, You Realize That At The End It's All About Passing On, About Handing Down. The Process Of Letting Go, Not Attachment, But Appreciating The Beauty And Value In The Change, The Transformation.

My First Job When I Got My Equity Card Was Acting In 14 Plays Back-to-back. Playing That Many Roles, You Look For Ways Of Differentiating The Characters Physically, Which Goes Hand In Hand With Understanding Them Psychologically.

It's A Different Rhythm Than Most Movies. For A Lot Of The Actors, You're 12,000 Miles Away From Home. It Becomes A Way Of Life - Getting Up At Five In The Morning, Shooting Every Day, Day In Day Out, For 270 Days. The New Cast Playing The Dwarves Were Carrying Incredibly Heavy Weights In Their Suits, They Sat Through Hours Of Make-up Every Day. So It's Quite Challenging From A Stamina Point Of View.

[greek] Theater Started Off And Used Masks And Kabuki, In The East, They Used Mask-work. And Then, Commedia Dell'arte In Italy And Then, You Know, We're Part Of An Acting Tradition And, And Performance Capture Is No Different.

I Understand Why People Went Nuts For 'the Artist.' We Use Words So Much, It's Nice To Be Able To Explore A Different Way Of Communication, To Be Able To Express Silently What Someone - Or Something - Is Thinking Or Feeling.