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I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and destructive modes of thinking. I don't know why, but those things co-exist. ”
I'm an extrovert - a social being. ”
I'm always trying to encapsulate how we, as emotional beings, interact with the world and the machines and technology around us - being able to emote through those things. They're not antithetical or mutually exclusive. ”
I think you feel more liberated in a foreign country. You're more open. You understand less about the social constructs that exist in a certain place, so you take people more at face value, and you're also taken more at face value, which makes you more able to be yourself. ”
When I first started acting, I knew that you have to learn different skills for different roles. ”
You have to have a lot of skills when you act; you might not have it when you start, but you definitely end up with a few skills along the way. ”
I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them. ”
The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness. ”
It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona. ”
Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. ”