When You Find Theater Writing Like In

I Remember Chris Cooper Saying To Me - I Was Doing October Sky With Him - And He Said, "you Know, You're Just Yelling At Me." He's Like, "you're Just Yelling. You Need To Listen." We Were In A Fight, And You Know, Oh You'd Get So Excited As An Actor, You're Like, "we Have A Fight, Oh, I Get To Get Mad." And He Just Said, "you Need To Listen." And I Started Listening - And Then All Of A Sudden Where I Was Listening Was Where, I Don't Know, Anger Became Something Else.

You Have Formal Rehearsal, A Lot Of Things You Don't Have In Movies - Which Is, You Have To Formally Rehearse. You Have To Know Your Back Story, Discuss It, And Almost Everybody Onstage Has To Know Each Other's [story], So That When It Comes Time To Actually Do It, You Can Throw It All Away. That's The Way I Like To - And I Didn't Realize Until Very Recently - That's The Way I Like To Prepare For Movies.

As An Actor, I Feel Like I'm Somebody Who, When Somebody Gives Me A Mark, I Don't Want To Hit It. I Don't Like That. But Then, Without Even Knowing It, I Just Hit It.

We Are All From Different Cultures. Heath's [ledger] Australian, Really. I'm From Here. Ang's [lee] From China. But I Think Ang Gets Very Close In Preproduction And Rehearsals. And Then He Allows His Actors - I Don't Think Scared Of Actors, But I Think He's Scared Of Getting In On The Scenes He's Watching. The Space He's Watching. So He Just Totally Disconnects From You While You're Shooting.

What World Am I Living In?' Aren't Movies Made To Have Something To Say? Why Make A Movie If You Don't Have Something To Say? What Are You Doing It For? Are You Doing It Because You Want To Make A Lot Of Money?