Some People Say Talent Is Energy And

As An Actor, You Want To Be Open To The Unexpected. So In Order To Be Open To That, You Do Have To Get Out Of Your Discursive Mind Just Like In Any Creative Process, This Isn't Just About Acting. So You Have To Learn A Little Bit How To Work With Your Own Mind.

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.

Sometimes People Don't Rehearse At All, But You Might Have Had A Chance To Rehearse For A Few Days, Or Even More Than That. Then In The Moment When The Camera's Running Is The Only Time It Matters. So Whatever You've Discussed Or Thought About Or Discussed With The Director, The Other Actors, Hopefully There's A Part Of The Experience That You've Left Open So That Only In That Moment The Camera Catches It. That's Of Course The Hardest Thing To Do Because Everything Is Planned And You Have Thought About It In Advance.

I Like That I've Been Through Things, That When Something Happens, It Resonates With Something That Already Happened. It's Not That Things Like Loss Are More Or Less Painful. But They're Deeper. I Find That Fascinating.

We Still Want To Idealize Moms, And Sometimes We Want To Idealize Actresses Who Are Moms, Too. I Know That's Something I've Experienced, But We're All Just Doing The Best We Can And We're All Trying To Raise Our Kids And Talk To Them About Everything That Needs To Be Discussed.