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I Love Working On Scripts. I Love Coming Up With Ideas About What People Would Dress Like Or Talk Like. I Love All That.

I Meet A Lot Of Young People That Want To Go Into Acting Because They Think Of What It Will Do For Them. If That's The Case, It Can Be A Very, Very Painful Profession. But If The Kids Want To Do Acting Because They Love It, And They Want To Give To It, Then They Can Have A Great Life. It's Really About As Simple As How You Look At It.

What I Learned About Acting, From My Experiences Directing, Is Why So Many Producers And Directors Don't Like Actors. You Go Through All Of This Work Securing A Location, Figuring Out How To Get Electricity There, How To Get Trucks Parked Where They Need To Be, And Where Catering Is Going To Come From. And If The Actors Don't Come Up With Some Magic, It Actually Didn't Matter. That Creates A Lot Of Animosity Towards The Actors.

I Did This Movie, Predestination, And It's One Of My Favorite Movies I've Ever Made, Because Sci-fi Really Lets You Talk About Ideas In A Way That's Not Pretentious.

The More Kind Of Head Trippy Sci-fi. I Always Like That. I Was A Big 'twilight Zone' Freak.