I'm An Optimist By Nature, Myself, I

There's Something Helpful About The Fast Pace Of A Tv Set Where Everything Has To Be Finished By The End Of The Week. You Have To Finish The Episode; It Doesn't Matter How Long You Have To Go On Friday Night, But You Have To Get It Done.

The Ratings Thing Is The Real Issue. It Really Hurts Movies. For Example, In Redbelt, I Smoked. The Whole Plot Of My Character Was Based On The Fact That I Was A Smoker. And Then They Discovered That Just By Having Someone Smoking In The Movie, It Immediately Makes The Rating An R. So They Had To Cut Out Every Shot Where I Had A Cigarette In My Hand And It Totally Affected The Performance. That Was Very Frustrating To David Mamet As Well. I Can Remember Him Saying, "it's A Nightmare."

I Want To Discover More Things About Acting.

The Thing I Miss About L.a. Is Time. I Feel Like I Had Much More Time There, Partly Because No One Is Ever Really Doing Anything.

There Were Moments Where I Was Being Kicked In The Stomach, And Even Though I Had This Brace On To Protect Me, I Still Had To Prepare Myself For It . You Can't Be Relaxed When That's Happening. You Have To Brace Your Muscles. I Can Remember Thinking As It Was About To Happen "wasn't That How Houdini Died?" I Think It Was.