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A Good Director Creates A Playground For Actors, And Lets Them Go. The Trick For A Good Director Is In Casting Properly, And Creating The Playroom, And Then They'll Get Stuff That They Don't Expect, And Can't Even Direct. All The Audience Wants To Believe Is That Whatever Is Happening, It Is Happening For The First Time. They Want To See The People Within The Work Exchanging Dialogue And Action In That Moment. There Are Not A Lot Of Actors That Can Do That.

Everything That Has Happened To Me Is Of Value To Me. As Painful As Certain Things Are, And Have Been, And Were, There's A Use For Those Things In My Life And In My Work

Most Acting Today On Television Is Like A Locomotive On A Track. Everybody Knows What They Are Doing. The Problem Of Writing Today Is Everyone Sounds The Same. We Speak Differently. We Think Differently. People Are Different. And That's The Beauty Of It.

Everyone Can Walk And Talk. Your Job Is To Create Magic.

The Talented Actor Needs Craft. When You Do A Stage Play, You Do It Once Each Night In Chronological Order. In A Film You're Going To Wind Up Doing A Scene 15-20 Times, Just By The Nature Of The Process. If I Tell You A Joke Once, It's Funny. The More Times I Tell, The Less Funny It Is. How Do You Get To The Point Where You Can Laugh Again? You Also May Have To Cry Again And Again.