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I Wish I Were More Musically Gifted, More Intuitive In Playing Instruments.

As An Actor, If You Step To The Side And You Look At [thornton's Performance] Technically, And You Try To Imagine Doing What He Was Doing, Most People Would Panic. Most People Would Be On The Set, And They Would Be Panicking, Going, "i'm Not Doing Anything!" All The Ham Instincts In You Would Be Screaming, "you've Got To Indicate Something Here." And It's Beautiful, In A Way. And So I Appreciate, Even As An Audience Member, The Courage That It Takes To Be... Frankly, To Be Subtle.

See, I Don't Get The Sense That You Need To Direct At All. Sometimes I Get The Opposite Sensation From You, That You're Like, "i Really Should Go Do Something Else." But Then You Are Drawn Back In By A Particular Story, Like A Hangnail In The Brain.

I'd Say That, In Addition To Actually Taking My Brother And Sister And I Camping And Hiking And River Rafting All Our Lives And Introducing Us To The Power Of Natural Landscapes, His [my Father's] Biggest Impact On My Thinking Has Been To Always Argue That The "spiritual Case For Nature" Was Not Going To Outweigh The Needs Of 7 Billion People And To Insist That Law, Science And Economics Were The Critical Frameworks Through Which We Had To Defend The Value Of Nature.

I Thought Rounders Was A Comic Movie In Its Way. First Time I Directed A Movie, I Wanted To Do A Comedy. I Don't Like Things That Are Superficially One Thing Or Another, Mainly. My Favorite Comedies Are Really Smart, Too, And Have A Lot Of Levels To Them As Well.