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My intensity is my greatest strength. It's also my greatest weakness. ”
All you try to do in any system you incorporate is put players in their areas of strength and try to hide and minimize their weaknesses. ”
Most actors will tell you, when they've got emotional stuff that's hard to carry around for hours and hard to try to do justice too, it just beats your butt. ”
Endings don't have anything to do with what your movie is about. Now, there is an emotional climax, there's an emotional resolution that is 100 percent important. If I get that wrong, get your money back. ”
I think plot is very overrated. Plot is obviously necessary, but what I really care about is emotionally affecting the audience. Having a thought myself and then an emotional experience myself, somehow transferring that to the audience. ”
I think only the movies you do remember are the films you had an emotional connection to. ”
If I'm not invested emotionally, the artwork doesn't feel emotional. ”
I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state. ”
I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing. ”
When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work. ”