The Only Thing I Can Point To

My Goal Is To Tell Good Stories. And To Try As Best I Can To Do Something New With Acting. To Learn From The Past And To Be A Relevant Artist. To Make Stories That Are Interesting And Contemporary And To Tell Some Kind Of Emotional Truth.

Well, There's A Great Marlon Brando Quote That To Do Something Well You Have To Spiritually Marry Your Director. You Have To Be Making The Same Movie They Are In That You Have To Try To Help Their Imagination Be Better, And More Full, And More Fully Realized, But You Can't Have A Different Imagination Because Then You End Up - And You See This A Lot In Movies - Where It Feels Like They Were Making Five Different Films.

I Feel Like Everyone I Meet Is An Imaginary Friend. I Don't Know. The Older I Get The More I Wonder What's Real.

What I Learned About Acting, From My Experiences Directing, Is Why So Many Producers And Directors Don't Like Actors. You Go Through All Of This Work Securing A Location, Figuring Out How To Get Electricity There, How To Get Trucks Parked Where They Need To Be, And Where Catering Is Going To Come From. And If The Actors Don't Come Up With Some Magic, It Actually Didn't Matter. That Creates A Lot Of Animosity Towards The Actors.

Don't You Find It Odd," She Continued, "that When You're A Kid, Everyone, All The World, Encourages You To Follow Your Dreams. But When You're Older, Somehow They Act Offended If You Even Try.