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Working With Robert, Robert [elswit] Is A Storyteller. He's Not A Cinematographer, He's A Storyteller. And To Me, That's The Graduation I Hope To Get To In My Profession. That I'm Not Just An Actor, I'm A Storyteller. And I Think That Takes A Long Time In, When You Have One Job On A Movie Set. Makeup Artists, Actor, Whatever. To Graduate From Just That To Storyteller.

I Was Brought Up, And My Sister Too, With Two People Who Were Always Saying, "what You Do Is Really Nowhere Near As Important As The Things That Are Going On In The World, And If Your Work Needs To Reflect That, Or You Want It To, Then You Need To Strive For A Certain Type Of Excellence."

Sometimes What I Actually Love To Do Is Go To A Farm And Get Fresh Milk Or Watch A Pig Get Slaughtered.

I Could Draw Ideas. I Remember Writing A Paper For A Seminar Class. I Remember Writing A Paper About - And This Is Going To Sound Really Sort Of Pretentious, But That's Where My Mind Was At The Time - How Acting And The Performing Artist Can Really Be Like A Bodhisattva, How They Can Communicate Ultimately An Idea In A Way That Can Move And Shift Things. And That Was Wonderful. I Didn't Know Many Classes Where I Could Try And Relate The Thing That I Really Loved And Wanted To Do Into An Intellectual Idea, And That Happened To Be One Of Them.

I Remember Chris Cooper Saying To Me - I Was Doing October Sky With Him - And He Said, "you Know, You're Just Yelling At Me." He's Like, "you're Just Yelling. You Need To Listen." We Were In A Fight, And You Know, Oh You'd Get So Excited As An Actor, You're Like, "we Have A Fight, Oh, I Get To Get Mad." And He Just Said, "you Need To Listen." And I Started Listening - And Then All Of A Sudden Where I Was Listening Was Where, I Don't Know, Anger Became Something Else.