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I Don't Really Think I Have The Personality. I Am Not Very External. I Don't Want To Dance On The Table And Do Impressions. So I Think That The Way I Approach It Is Really Loving Story. That's My First Love - The Words. The Words And The Story And How To Create Images. I Guess I Come At That As A Director. I Think That's Much More In My Personality To Be A Director, So That's Kind Of Informed My Acting.

I Feel At Various Times In My Life That I've Been At A Point Where I Had To Choose Between A Death Sentence And A Life Sentence. And I Want To Live. What Do I Do To Live? What Do I Do To Be Vital? And The Answer Is Always Creativity.

I Want To Change The System From Within The System. And That Means Focusing And Specializing.

There Are 400 Billion Stars Out There, Just In Our Galaxy Alone. If Just One Out Of A Million Of Those Had Planets, And Just One In A Million Of Those Had Life, And Just One Out Of A Million Of Those Had Intelligent Life, There Would Be Literally Millions Of Civilizations Out There.

When I Was Growing Up, Books Took Me Away From My Life To A Solitary Place That Didn't Feel Lonely. They Celebrated The Outcasts, People Who Sat On The Margins Of Society Contemplating Their Interiors. . . Books Were My Cure For A Romanticized Unhappiness, For The Anxiety Of Impending Adulthood. They Were All Mine, Private Islands With Secret Passwords Only The Worthy Could Utter.