My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.
Nic PizzolattoWhatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.
Nic PizzolattoI don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.
Nic PizzolattoWe live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.
Nic PizzolattoAt DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.
Nic PizzolattoYou can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.
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