And The 90% They Are Not Is

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.

It's Better To Live As Your Own Man, Than As A Fool In Someone Else's Dream.

My Mantra Is "stay Perpendicular." Horizontal Is Not As Good. Half The People That Came Along And Up With With Me Are Either Gone To Another Dimension Or Don't Remember What They Had For Lunch. I'm Fortunate. I Don't Know Why. I Just Want To Have A Good Time.

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.

It's Ok To Be Wrong. You Learn From Your Wrongs. You Don't Learn From Being Right. If You're Right, You Already Know It. If You're Wrong, It's Because You Don't Know About It, And You Made A Mistake.