The Films That Are Interesting You Never

Oh, Honey, I'm From Oklahoma! This Is Who I Am - Middle-class All The Way!

All Of Modern Acting Comes From Stanislavski, Who Was The Russian Partner To Chekhov. When Chekhov Was Writing His Plays, Stanislavski Was Running His Theater. And Stanislavski Really Was The First Inventor Of Modern Acting And Then Everything That Came Out Of The Method And Stella Adler And The Great Teachers Really Came Out Of Him.

I Had Never Met An Actress Or An Actor When I Thought That I Might Like To Be One. I Had Never Been Around People In Show Business Or From The Theater Or From Movies Or Anything. And I Say That As An Encouragement, I Don't Know Some People Who Want To Be Doing What I'm Doing Or Be Involved In Film. You Don't Have To Be From It To Get Interested And Get Involved. I Certainly Wasn't.

We All Perform Our Lives In A Way. And The Actor Is A Perfect Metaphor To Get At That Theme Of "how Do We Find Our Authentic Selves?" And That We All - Whether We're Actors Or Not - Perform Ourselves. As A Way Of Searching. As A Way Of Fumbling Around And Trying To Say, Is This My Voice? Is This Who I Am?

Movies Are Details. Movies Are Billions Of Details That Come Into A Certain Moment. So With All The Years And Months And Weeks And Days And Minutes Of Preparation, Then Finally You're Shooting And It All Comes Down To These Moments When You're Shooting, Which Is Sort Of Insane When You Think About It. The Details Make A Difference.