I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.
I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.
What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control
The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.
I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.
I'm very confident I'm one of the best to ever play the game, but once you talk about the greatest, how can you define greatest?