I Have A Profound Respect

My Experience On 'jarhead' Was Life Changing.

As An Actor, I Feel Like I'm Somebody Who, When Somebody Gives Me A Mark, I Don't Want To Hit It. I Don't Like That. But Then, Without Even Knowing It, I Just Hit It.

Theater Has Given Me A Different Perspective On The Way I Approach Films.

I Remember Watching Meryl Streep In, The River Wild. There's This Scene Where She's Has A Gun Pointed At Her, It's Absurd In A Lot Of Ways. Someone Pulls A Gun On Her I Think, I'm Not Really Fully Aware Of The Scene And She Just, She Starts, You See Her Terrified. And Then All Of A Sudden She Starts To Burst Out Laughing. She Starts Laughing. Like She Can't Stop Laughing. Because She's Terrified And She's Emotional And There Are No Rules To What You're Supposed To Feel. That To Me Is Like A Number One, That's The Thing I Have To Remind Myself All The Time.

I Remember Chris Cooper Saying To Me - I Was Doing October Sky With Him - And He Said, "you Know, You're Just Yelling At Me." He's Like, "you're Just Yelling. You Need To Listen." We Were In A Fight, And You Know, Oh You'd Get So Excited As An Actor, You're Like, "we Have A Fight, Oh, I Get To Get Mad." And He Just Said, "you Need To Listen." And I Started Listening - And Then All Of A Sudden Where I Was Listening Was Where, I Don't Know, Anger Became Something Else.