“The trick is to always know what your next shot is. You don’t have to know what your shot is two shots from now, but you have to know what your next shot is so that when you do say cut, check the gate print, moving on, people know that you have the...
“I think I learned a really, really important lesson…. always give your audience what they expect…play to their perception, to their point of view and not your point of view and what you want to do. You’ve always got to think about your...
“The best things that I ever did, or at least that helped me, was doing commercials. They’ve helped me not care because commercial auditions are very random and strange and you do the weirdest things in them. I’ve had to wrestle an alligator....
“I think the people who have done okay in this business are people who are persistent despite the desperate struggles. I mean, I’ve never had a film that didn’t have a very dark moment where I really wanted out. And I hated the subject, I hated the...
“So I was in a bit of a rut, around 40, you know, midlife crisis, been there, done that. And then, I did some MDMA and went to a rave, and everything changed. It was fantastic….It’s great for creativity because it makes your brain work in different...
