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When You're Working On A Creative Thing, Everyone Has An Idea, And They're Pushing It. The First Time You Work With Anybody, You Have To Get Comfortable With The Way Another Person Pushes Hard For What They Want. Familiarity Breeds Contempt, People Say. But I've Found, For Creative Things, Familiarity Breeds Peace Of Mind, Because You Realize You Know Someone Better. You Trust Each Other. You Know Not To Take Things A Certain Way, Or A Wrong Way. You Get To Where You Don't Have To Waste Quite So Much Time With Diplomacy. Things Are A Little More Efficient.

I've Always Thought Of Acting As More Of An Exercise In Empathy, Which Is Not To Be Confused With Sympathy. You're Trying To Get Inside A Certain Emotional Reality Or Motivational Reality And Try To Figure Out What That's About So You Can Represent It.

People Are Worried About The Degree To Which Corporate Interest Is Starting To Threaten Human Interest.

I Tend To Relate To A Character In Terms Of The Arc: What's Interesting Is Where He Starts Versus Where He Ends Up.

I Just Don't Think Most Of Us Are Aware How Much Of What We Throw Away Ends Up In The Ocean, For Starters. Plastic Bags Are Among The Worst. The Us Is Actually Falling Behind The Curve On That Score. China And Many Other Countries Have Already Banned The Production And Use Of Thin Plastic Bags.