My Mother's A Staunch Feminist, So I

You Know The Circus Performer Who Spins The Plates In The Air You Know, And He'll Spin Six Or Seven Plates In The Air? Acting Sometimes Is Kind Of That Guy Spinning All Those Plates In The Air But In Your Head And In Your Body.

Vanity Is Something That Will Only Get In The Way Of Doing Your Best Work, And Ultimately If You're Truly Vain You Care More About Your Work Than How You Look In Your Work. I Actually Consider Myself A Pretty Vain Guy When It Comes To That.

When You See The Carrot At The End Of The Stick, What Do You Do To Get It? These Kinds Of Things That Come Up, That Come Up In The Story Of Capote Writing "in Cold Blood," And When You See The Movie, You'll See What I'm Talking About.

When You Become A Parent, You Look At Your Parents Differently. You Look At Being A Child Differently. It's An Awakening, A Revelation That You Have.

There's Something In The Very Small Minutia Of Life That Tells Us Something About The Big, Big Picture That We See Every Day All Over The Place, And So I Think The More Specific And Creative And Revelatory You Are In The Micro, The More Powerful The Macro Will Be.