A Good Movie Humanizes People.

Everything Is So Finite But That’s What Makes Our Time And Specific Moments So Important.

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 Auditioned For Robert Redford Once And I Was So Starstruck I Couldn't Even Speak. I Had A Mic Wire At A Screen Test Clipped To Me And Then I Got Kind Of Nervous And I Paced In A Circle And Then Took A Step And Tripped And Fell On My Face. You Just Have To Forgive Yourself And Keep Going On.

I Love Really Exploring... You Know, A Cop Drama For Example Is A Great Way To Explore Class In This Country And Explore, You Know, Really, Identity In The Country And Who We Are In A Way That Is Extremely Exciting, But It's Also Real, You Know, It's Also Real People And Real Drama. The Same With The Military. I Mean, A Good Science Fiction Story Is Also Great.

I Was Being Taken Around By A Press Agent At The Venice Film Festival At Age 18. Was It Fun? Sure. But It Was A Dangerous Path To Be Walking On As Far As Having A Substantive Life. Because The Casualty Rate At The Venice Film Festival For 18-year-olds? High.