I Love Working With Actors. I Do.

When I'm Asked Who My Audience Is, I Say Someone With An Open Mind, Which Is Not A Vacant One And Sometimes A Liberal Mind Is Not The Same Thing As An Open One.

So Much Of What A Pet Is About For Us Is That It Becomes A Vessel For Yearnings, Dreams, Illusions, Hopes And So Forth. It's A Projection Of The Ultimate Innocence And Purity. That's Why It's Hard To See A Dog In Its Dogness. That's Why, When Some Harm Comes To A Dog, It's Much Harder For An Audience To Deal With That, More So Than Dealing With Harm That Comes To A Child Or Anything Human.

I Don't Have A Formula. Every Time An Actor Wants Me To Hold Their Hand, I Hold Their Hand. If They Say, "stay," I Say "okay, Respect." You Know? "i'm Right Over Here." A Kid, If I Need To Give A Line-reading, I'll Start Acting Out The Part For The Kid And Just Mimic The Kid. You Know? Whatever It Takes.

That Said, Be Mindful, To Someone Who's Never Seen Any Of My Work, It's Just A Movie With Actors. So It's Only Those Who Of Course Know The Earlier Work That Will See Something Is Afoot, So To Speak. But I Don't Want To Intellectualize.

The Ability To Take Pleasure In One's Life Is A Skill And Is A Kind Of Intelligence. So Intelligence Is A Hard Thing To Evaluate And It Manifests Itself In So Many Different Ways. I Do Think The Ability To Know How To Live A Life And Not Be Miserable Is A Sign Of That.