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There Is No Best Anything In Art. Phillip [hoffman] Isn't Better Than Heath [ledger]; Joaquin [phoenix] Isn't Better Than David [strathairn] Or Terence [howard]. They Aren't Better Than Me. We All Do Different Things. It's More Of A Celebration Of A Lot Of Great Work Than To Give The Gold To Somebody. The Underappreciated Factor Certainly Has Gone Away.

Regardless Of The Fact That In This Country, Certainly In The Arts, We Treat Comedy As A Second-class Citizen, I've Never Thought Of It That Way. I've Always Thought It To Be Important. The Last Time I Looked, The Greeks Were Holding Up Two Masks. I've Always Thought Of It Not Only As Having Equal Value, But As The Craft Of It, Being Funny.

On Indies It's Hard To Do, But In Rehearsals, You Make Mistakes In Rehearsal. It's Really Hard Rehearsing A Play Or What Rehearsal You Get On Any Movie. That's Where You Get To Make Your Mistakes, And You Make Big Ones. So When You Shoot [the Movie] Or You Finally Get The Play In Shape And Do It, The Mistakes Are Out Of The Way. If You're Not Afraid To Make Mistakes, Then There Is No Writer's Block Or Actor's Block.

We're All Capable Of Anything As Human Beings. Any Emotion, Any Action. We Really Are.

I Never Starved. And You Know, Whatever Talent I Have, I've Relied On That, Versus Image Or Star.