I Read A Lot Of Scripts And

I Studied French Forever, And When Do I Ever Speak French? I Clearly Should Have Studied Spanish. I Wish I Had Stuck With Music, Because That Would Still Be Great. I Really Wish I Had Learned To Surf Earlier In My Life.

Even My Wife And Two Of My Children Are In "leaves Of Grass". Because I Love The Source Material So Much, It Was Really Easy To Write And An Utter Delight To Get To Direct Because I Had People Like Edward [norton] Elevating The Material And Surprising Me In Their Interpretations Of All Of This Stuff That's So Close To Me.

There's A Lot Of Romanticisation Of The Intuitive Actor And Method Acting And All Kinds Of Notions About Getting Inside A Character And Coming Out From There.

The More You Can Create That Magic Bubble, That Suspension Of Disbelief, For A While, The Better.

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