You Don't Need Other People To Affirm

When I Woke Up I Was Naked. I Have This One Oddball Idiosyncrasy: Sometimes In My Sleep I Take Off All My Clothes.

If You Can Channel The Best Part Of You That Is Bigger Than Yourself, Where It’s Not About Your Ego And Not About Getting Ahead, Then You Can Have Fun And You Aren’t Jealous Of Others. You See Other People's Talent As Another Branch Of Your Own. You Can Keep It Rooted In Joy. Life Is Long And There Are Plenty Of Opportunities To Make Mistakes. The Point Of It All Is To Learn.

When You Do 'before Sunset,' You Know While It's A Limited Audience, There Was A Very Small Group Of People That Love 'before Sunrise.' You Feel A Certain Pressure To Make Sure That You Uphold A Level Of Quality That Has Been A Bar. You Set A Bar And You Have To At Least Match It.

I Meet A Lot Of Young People That Want To Go Into Acting Because They Think Of What It Will Do For Them. If That's The Case, It Can Be A Very, Very Painful Profession. But If The Kids Want To Do Acting Because They Love It, And They Want To Give To It, Then They Can Have A Great Life. It's Really About As Simple As How You Look At It.

Seeing The Play ( A Lie Of The Mind ) Clearly Is Part Of Why I Wanted To Direct It. I See Hope At The End Of This Play. People Talk About How Dark The Play Was, But I Feel Like, If You Really Look At The Darkness, You're Able To Go Through It, And You Realize That You Can Handle Dark Moments In Life And That Everything Will Be All Right.