No One Wants To See A Hero

I Think I Did Have A Reputation For Being Grumpy. I Don't Think I'm Grumpy. I Have Opinions. I Have An Independent Vision. I Am A Purposeful Person. But On A Daily Basis, I Think I'm Other Than Grumpy. I Think It Is A Case Where I Am Coming To Do Business And Not There Just To Be Flattered And Cajoled And Used.

[in Relationships With A Directors] I Want To Be Able To Give And Take, And I Can't Name What It Is: Respect, Energy, Investment In The Task, Focus, Humor, Intelligence, But I Always Feel Responsible For Taking The Money.

An Actor Only Has His Own Understanding And Experience To Work With.

The Capacity To Create [visual] Effects In The Computer Has Made The Job Easier, But It Has Also Introduced The Complexity That You Can With A Few More Keystrokes Generate Such A Busy Canvas That The Eye Doesn't Know Where To Go. You Lose Human Scale On An Event And You're Just Wowed By The Kinetics And The Visualization. But, Often In Those Cases I Feel You Lose Touch With The Human Characters And What It Is That They Would Feel And How They Might Feel, And That's Still The Most Important Part.

What I Think Is Important For A Young Person Is To Figure Out How To Be Useful And Not Be So Concentrated On Themselves, But To See What They Can Do To Make The Overall Collaboration With All The Other People Involved In A Movie Work Better.