Theres Always Next Year, ... Except, You

I Shot Barton Fink In July And Moved Out To La That Fall. The Movie Came Out In The Spring And It Was A Year Before I Got Wings.

I'm From A Lebanese-american Family. And I've Been Had Lot Of Contacts And - With Arab-american Community, Especially Arab-american Filmmakers And Actors And So Forth. It's A Community That, A Minority That Really Hasn't Been Heard From Enough. And So Many Of The Stories That Are Told About Arab-americans These Days Are Just Negative Portrayals In The News, But Also In Television And Film. So We're - We Set Out To Try And Offset Some Of Those Stereotypes.

I've Been So Fortunate Throughout My Career, When I Was Doing Theater, More Theater Than Anything Else, And When I Was Doing Films That I Got A Chance Just To Do A Broad Range Of Things. In Fact, A Lot Of My Choices That I Made Were About That Very Thing. Every Project That I Had An Opportunity To Do Or Chose To Do, I Wanted It To Be Different From The Last Thing I Did, And I Think That's Why I Have A Good, You Know, I Had Kind Of A Diverse Kind Of Résumé. I'm Really - It's What I Set Out To Do As An Actor Originally.

I Would Want People To Take Away This Idea That Sometimes People's Problems Or Neuroses Are Really The Things That Are Kind Of A Blessing In Disguise, And Even Though There's Sometimes Pain Associated With These Things That Sometimes In The Face Of Adversity With Obstacles To Overcome, People Can Really Kind Of Soar And Find Their Higher Selves.

My Ritual It's Kind Of An Involuntary Ritual. I Lie Awake The Night Before, Worrying About Award Ceremony. Try And Think Of Something To Write In Case I Actually Get Up There. I Write It At The Very Last Minute Like Either In The Car On The Way To The Ceremony Or, You Know, In The Bathroom Before The Show Starts. It's All Of Jumbled Mess Written On A Napkin Or A Piece Of Toilet Paper. That's My Good Luck Ritual. It's Just Like Being In College Waiting For The Last Minute To Do Everything.