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If I Ever Have To Stop Taking The Subway, I'm Gonna Have A Heart Attack.

A Lot Of People Ask, "what Do You Pull On In Your Own Life From Your Character?" In All Honesty, It's Not Something That Really Works That Way For Me. I Tend To Look At These Things As An Imaginative Process And A Challenge Of Imagination And Empathy, To Some Degree. I Get Much More Out Of Meeting People Who Have Lived These Lives Than I Do Digging Around In My Own Limited Experiences.

I'm Fascinated By The Ways In Which People Express Themselves, Because Their Responses Are Often Counter To What They're Actually Feeling. Like When They're Frightened, They Tend To Freeze. When They're Angry, It Doesn't Always Come Out As Volume. There Are Wonderful Contradictions In The Way That People Express Their Emotions.

There's A Lot Of Romanticisation Of The Intuitive Actor And Method Acting And All Kinds Of Notions About Getting Inside A Character And Coming Out From There.

I'd Say That, In Addition To Actually Taking My Brother And Sister And I Camping And Hiking And River Rafting All Our Lives And Introducing Us To The Power Of Natural Landscapes, His [my Father's] Biggest Impact On My Thinking Has Been To Always Argue That The "spiritual Case For Nature" Was Not Going To Outweigh The Needs Of 7 Billion People And To Insist That Law, Science And Economics Were The Critical Frameworks Through Which We Had To Defend The Value Of Nature.