I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

Houston, we have a problem.

Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right, and exercise, and lose weight, and watch what I eat, and I will be fine for the rest of my life.

I'm not looking for anything. If you start looking for something specific, then you take providence right out of it. You can't completely control it. Otherwise you'd make the same kind of movie over and over again, which some people say I've done.

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.