It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.