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Life As A Performance Is Just A Way To Look At Life Choices As Character Choices. Every Morning You Choose What To Wear, You Choose How To Wear Your Hair, You Choose Your Friends, You More Or Less Choose Your Profession, And How Hard You Will Work At It. Those Are All Things That An Actor Decides About His Character When He Is Performing, And They Are Things That We Decide In Life. We Create Our "character."

I Only Work With People I Trust And Respect.

Almost All The Movies I've Directed Are Adaptations. And I Think What I Found When I Went To Film School, Where They Try To Push You To Find Your Voice Or Your Thing, Is That I Got A Lot Of Things Out Of Adaptations.

I Was An English Major At Ucla When I Was 18, And Then I Left After A Year To Start Acting. I Was Educating Myself During That Time.

I Don't Cast Somebody That I Think Is Like My Younger Self.