I Hear About Actors Being Exterior Actors

As We Say In The Sewer, Time And Tide Wait For No Man.

I'm An Actor, And, Beyond That, The Thing I Do Most Compulsively Is Writing. So I Come At It Very Much From This Sense Of Character. I Get Interested In People. And I Feel Confident In My Capacity To Absorb And Manifest The Characteristics Of People. I Have A Real Auditory Hang-up For Dialogue; Re-creating The Way People Talk Really Is An Addiction In My Brain.

I Like To Get Into A Lot Of Things Besides Movies. I've Been Very Involved With A Few Specific Efforts. We Built This Park In New York And It's Been A Very Successful Project... I Worked On A Conservation Project In East Africa... Too Much Of This Type Of Stuff Can Get You Wrapped Up In Your Own Work And I Love It.

Most Of Us Still Believe In The Intrinsic Value Of Nature, But I Think The First Century Of The Environmental/conservation Movement Demonstrated Pretty Clearly That This Value Cannot Compel A Civilization-wide Shift Toward Sustainable Behavior And Enterprise When Stacked Up Against The Urgent Economic And Social Needs Of 7 Billion People, Most Of Whom Are Struggling To Get Out Of Poverty.

To Me, Achieving Tone, Achieving Consistency, Is Exactly The Job Of A Director. It Is To Be The Fusing, The Nexus Of A Whole Bunch Of People Contributing To The Complex Life Of A Movie. There Are Actors, There's A Cinematographer, There're Costume People, Set People, There Are All These Things, And You Somehow Have To Be The Person In The Middle Of It Who Is Making It All Synchronize Into The Same Magic Bubble.