I Don't Get Much Out Of Doing

I'm An Actor, And, Beyond That, The Thing I Do Most Compulsively Is Writing. So I Come At It Very Much From This Sense Of Character. I Get Interested In People. And I Feel Confident In My Capacity To Absorb And Manifest The Characteristics Of People. I Have A Real Auditory Hang-up For Dialogue; Re-creating The Way People Talk Really Is An Addiction In My Brain.

On The Downside, To Paraphrase Thom Yorke Talking About The Music Business, We're Still Having To Deal With The Stench Of The Last Fart Of The Dying Corpse Of This Regressive Vision That America Is A White, Middle-aged, Male, Conservative Country.

I Tend To Have A Kind Of Tunnel Vision When I'm Looking At An Individual Piece.

Obviously Plastics Have Served Very Important Purposes And Been Incredibly Convenient But As We Begin To Witness The Long-term Consequences Of The Chemical Components Leaching Into Our Water And Our Bodies, We're Going To Be Forced To Look For Alternatives To How We Package Goods And Food.

I've Never Acted Before In A Movie I've Directed. This Felt Like The Time To Do It Just Because The " Leaves Of Grass" Movie Itself Is So Much Of A Platform For The Lead Actor. It's Really Written For An Exciting Performance And It Really Depends On The Audience Watching An Extraordinary Actor Having A Great Time Pulling Off This Feat. It Makes Sense To Me As A Director To Act In Support Of That.