I Was An English Major At Ucla

When I Was Younger, I Didn’t Know That I Should Just Listen To My Own Voice, My Own Artistic Sense Of Things When I Was Choosing Projects, Because One Of The Biggest Creative Decisions That An Actor Can Make In The Film Business Is What You Will Work On.

...it Can Be So Boring Being You Sometimes, And If You Were The Most Special Thing Like That, It Could Be Really Great, But Maybe Some People Say The Same Thing About You, And You Want To Tell Those People: 'no, You're Stupid, It's No Fun Being Me.

I Learned A Lot Of Good Things In My School. I've Audited A Lot Of Other Schools, And I Guess After A While I Got A Little Tired Of The Acting School Atmosphere.

If You Just Read The Book, You're Taking In The Narrative, You're Taking In The Characters, You're Understanding It In A Certain Way. If You Make A Movie It's Really An Act Of Translation.

School Allowed Me To Have Outlets So That Some Of The Pressure Was Taken Off The Acting. Every Role In Every Movie, I Used To Live Or Die By. Once I Had These New Outlets, I Relaxed A Lot More.