I Like That Best As I Am

It's Much Nicer To Be Praised Than To Be Damned. But You Have To Have A Certain Sense Of Your Own Priorities And Ideas About What Works And What Doesn't Because Otherwise, If You're Just Looking For Eternal Validation All The Time, You Can Be Motivated By The Wrong Things And I Don't Think It's As Personally Satisfying In Your Own Work.

Every Single Director-actor I Talked To, From Warren Beatty To Clint Eastwood To George Clooney, Said The Biggest Mistake They Made Is Not Shooting Enough Footage Of Themselves.

I Recognize That Hollywood Is Not About Seniority. Often It's Not Even A Meritocracy. It's About What You Did Yesterday. You Have A Couple Of Misses, And Suddenly It's Impossible To Find A Hit. So The Swings Are Gigantic. But I've Always Understood It As Such, And Navigated It As Such.

I've Never Held Myself Up Particularly High When I Had Movies That Worked, And I Never Held Myself All That Low When I Had Failures.

When I Look Up At The Screen And See Myself I Always Have To Laugh. Not Because I Think I'm Doing A Horrible Job, Quite The Contrary, I Just Feel It's So Surreal To Feel Like One Person Can Entertain So Many At One Time.