What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.
I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.
As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.
A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.
As soon as the actor steps into the role, you probably can cut 50% of the lines because there's a person there now. And what a person does with their eyes, with their mouth, with their hands, the way they walk into a room, you can probably cut half the scene.
I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.
Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.
There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.
People are fed up - and I think quite rightfully so. But what are they proposing as an alternative to just being upset or feeling disillusioned or abandoned? That kind of protest movement really needs to happen on a much bigger scale, but there needs to be a clearer message.
Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.
She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.