The Goal Seems To Me At Times

Doing The Right Thing Has Power.

I Think Everybody Handles Things Very Differently And You Can Conjecture, But Until You're Put In That Situation, You Really Don't Know.

My Castings Sort Of Go In Phases. There'll Be Several Icy Professional Parts - A Lawyer Or A Cop. And Then There'll Be The Intelligent-but-wounded Group And Then The Period Things. It Goes In Sequence.

With Big, Emotional Roles It's Very Easy, Especially If You've Grown Up In The American School Of Acting, To Exploit Your Own Pain. You Have To Be Careful About That, Because 9 Times Out Of 10, Your Pain Is Not Appropriate To The Character.

There's Something Grueling But Very Appealing About Rough, To-the-bone Material In A Low Budget Context. There's Less Between You And The Material. There Are Less People. There Is Less Time. There's Often Less Technology. You Have To Concentrate Very Intensely, And You Jump In A Little Deeper Because There's Nothing In Your Way... But There Are Challenges.