When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.
Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was.
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to.
I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.
I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.
Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.