Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

I'm very aware, but I'm very naïve. When you are really naïve and expecting safety and expecting the best, you don't feel you're taking risks. You can get smacked a little, but usually it works out pretty well. I would say that, as much as you can instill your open-minded naivety, if you're basically open minded, then you can do damn near anything.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.

...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.