If You're An Actor, You Have To

It Used To Be The One Or The Other, Right? You Were The 'bad Girl' Or The 'good Girl' Or The 'bad Mother' Or The 'good Mother,' 'the Horrible Businesswoman Who Eschewed Her Children' Or 'the Earth Mother Who Was Happy To Be At Home Baking Pies,' All Of That Stuff That We Sort Of Knew Was A Lie.

I Still Remember The Five Points Of Salesmanship: Attention, Interest, Conviction, Desire And Close.

If You Push In Every Time There's A Big Moment, Then The Tenth Time You Push In, You're Not Going To Get The Same Effect. Or If You Have Too Many Close Ups, Then When You Have A Big Moment And You Want A Close-up In Order To Make A Point, It Doesn't Mean Anything Because You've Already Been Doing Close-ups. It's Like Writing In All Capitals. Then After A While That Doesn't Mean Anything. So, Just Because You Can Do Something With A Camera Doesn't Mean You Should.

There's A Lot Of Different Ways Of Going About Teaching Acting And Ultimately You Have To Just Kind Of Create Your Own. You Have To Be The Author Of Your Own Acting School In A Way. I Mean You Can Take From This And This And You Can Watch People And You Can Watch Performances On The Stage. You Can Watch Movies. But Ultimately You Have To Figure It Out For Yourself.

Once I Get On Something, Once I Have Something That I'm Working On, Then I Become Very Obsessive. In A Good Way. I Mean,... Is There A Positive Way To Say Obsessive? It's A Good Thing And If You're Out There And You're Working On Something Right Now And You're Crazed And You're Up In The Middle Of The Night, Or You Can't Stop Thinking About It, Or You Have To Keep Reading Other Things About The Subject That You're Working On Or Whatever. That's Good And I Think That's Necessary Creatively.