If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I'm in it, whatever that means, I'm expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.

It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.