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One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray. ”
Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much. ”
So it is that one side effect of the HD revolution has been the gratifying and edifying return of the nature documentary - films about the hugely varied forms of life that eat, sleep, stalk, mate, fight, thrive, suffer and struggle on our dear and embattled old Earth. ”
I stay very much undercover and behind the scenes - most places I go, people don't know how important I am. But I will admit that my favorite piece of clothing to wear out is an old T-shirt from a Boston tour that does have a Boston logo. But that doesn't change anything. ”
I love to run. When the weather's bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation. ”
Wanting a more positive environment isn't enough. You need to do something, and it doesn't require a great deal of effort or some huge change in the way you approach things at work. ”
Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually. ”
The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me. ”
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse. ”
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change. ”