“The thing to know is that when the opportunity comes, you are prepared through your training, through your discoveries of things, through your curiosity, through your Persona. How do you become loose? And when you walk into that room when everybody’s...
“P.K. Edgewater: You have to be curious. Just be curious about weird people. Seriously. However you define weird, you know, they’re different from you, so they’re weird. Try to understand why they behave the way they do, why they dress the way they...
“It has to pay off in the moment or we simply won’t do it. If I say to myself, well, I’m gonna write this, but I don’t care if anybody reads it until after I’m dead, maybe you would. I’m never gonna write that because I can’t...
“The director I learned the most from was Clint Eastwood. And I learned many, many things from him. He is an absolute master and he would not ever want to do more than four takes. Now, uh, you work with some directors who will do 20 takes. He would only do four....
“Read as much as you can, even things that you don’t like. But it’s really important to be a reader. So many people want to be writers and they think they can just skip over that part to give a devoted study to literature in order to actually be a...
