“I was working out the schedule for Into the Woods, and I sat Meryl [Streep] down. I said, “Meryl, I’m thinking that I’ll bring in the cast, we’ll work for about three weeks, and then we’ll have you come in, and then we’ll...
“Milton used to say ‘acting is about a necklace.’ The more understanding you have of your character, the more beads you add until you have it complete.” I had a blast chatting with the great Australian-born actor and raconteur, Thaao Penghlis,...
“Talent is something that we earn, that we earn through grit, through perseverance, through sort of through a willingness to return to the same task and try to do it a little bit better the next time. I believe it’s a process, it’s a creative process...
“Don’t have anything to fall back on. Because if you get too comfortable doing something else, then you’re not going to do what you really want to do. Find a way to at least be part of the atmosphere of what you want to do so that you can continue to...
“When you’re having a problem and you don’t know what to do and you can’t breathe and you think you’re going to have to stop, look around, because the answer’s there, right there in front of you. Usually when there’s a...
