A Good Director Is Very Well Prepared,

I Don't Know If It's Fair To Say That It's A Bad Time For Movies. It Seems To Me That Throughout The Entire History Of Filmmaking, Every Year There Have Been About Two Really Wonderful Movies, About 10 Others That Are Pretty Good, And A Whole Pile Of Garbage.

I Think What All Actors Share Is That, Somewhere Down In Your Solar Plexus, There's This Fear That You're Not Going To Be Able To Come Up With The Goods, That This Is The One Movie Where You're Going To Look Like A Fool, And They Should Have Cast Someone Else. And You Feel Ugly, And You've Got Three Chins, And You've Gained Too Much Weight, And You're Losing Your Hair, And There Are So Many Better Actors Who Could Do This. But If You've Got Chops, What You Realize Is That Everybody Feels That Way, So Just Show Up And Do The Job.

I Got An Agent. He Said, What Do You Wanna Do, And I Said, I Want An Oscar Nomination. That's Your Job, That's What I'm Paying You For. And I Got It.

The Roughest Part Is Showing Up. Once You Throw Yourself Into The Scene, It's Just Great Fun To Let It All Go And Not Be Self-conscious, And Stop Questioning Whether You're Sufficient.

I've Written A Lot Of Scripts That Someone Else Directed, And It's Absolutely Vital That, If I'm Gonna Act In It, Then I Have To Take Off The Writer Hat And Let The Director Direct.