I Was Always Very Grateful

What I Think Is Important For A Young Person Is To Figure Out How To Be Useful And Not Be So Concentrated On Themselves, But To See What They Can Do To Make The Overall Collaboration With All The Other People Involved In A Movie Work Better.

I Realized Early On That Success Was Tied To Not Giving Up. Most People In This Business Gave Up And Went On To Other Things. If You Simply Didn't Give Up, You Would Outlast The People Who Came In On The Bus With You.

The Basic Skill Of An Actor Is, In Fact, Empathy, And That's Maybe Not A Skill, It's A Disposition. I Am An Assistant Storyteller. I Enjoy Feeling Useful To A Team Effort. It's My Way Of Finding A Use For Myself, A Utility In This World.

My Work Has Always Been Important To Me. The Reason I Continue To Do It Is Because It's So Much Fun For Me. I Love My Work And So That's What Keeps Me In The Game.

The Capacity To Create [visual] Effects In The Computer Has Made The Job Easier, But It Has Also Introduced The Complexity That You Can With A Few More Keystrokes Generate Such A Busy Canvas That The Eye Doesn't Know Where To Go. You Lose Human Scale On An Event And You're Just Wowed By The Kinetics And The Visualization. But, Often In Those Cases I Feel You Lose Touch With The Human Characters And What It Is That They Would Feel And How They Might Feel, And That's Still The Most Important Part.