Change Is Vital To Any Actor. If

At The Oscars, If You Didn't Vote For '12 Years A Slave' You Were A Racist.

I Drank For About 25 Years Getting Over The Loss Of My Father, And I Took The Anger Out On Myself. I Did A Good Job At Beating Myself Up Sometimes.

I Never Told My Father I Loved Him Before He Died, And I Have A Lot Of Issues About That. They're All Swimming Around In My Head, In My Heart, Unresolved, And In A Way It Felt Fitting To Dedicate The Film To Him.

That's What Sets Apart One Actor From Another, And That You Can't Teach. You Can't Give Someone That. When You're Working, Putting A Character Together, Or In A Scene, That's Where Things Will Happen That You Have To Have The Intuition To Notice Them, And To Register Them.

It's Becoming Increasingly Harder And Harder; There's No Such Thing As Independent Film Anymore. There Aren't Any, They Don't Exist. In The Old Days You Could Go And Get A Certain Amount Of The Budget With Foreign Sales, Now Everybody Wants A Marketable Angle.