It's Always Hard To Explain

The Interesting Thing About Movies, It's Not Always - Y'know, You Have To Have Structure Etc And All Those Things, But An Audience Responds, In Many Ways, We Walk Away And Certain Things Stay In Our Heads That Are Memorable.

I'm Fascinated By Documentaries, To Begin With. Because Of The Nature Of Television, As Opposed To Theatrical, Documentaries Can Be In This Long Form And Take You On A Journey.

Ronald Reagan Was This Actor Who Was Going To Be President, And He Was Very Charming. What He Had Was, He Talked About America In Ways That Got People All Caught Up In It. He Was Creating This America - It Could Even Be The Mythical "america" - That We Subscribe To.

If You Test Iron Man And That Audience Doesn't Respond Well, You Can Be Damn Sure That There Is Something Wrong With The Movie That You Have To Address. Because They're Expecting A Certain Amount Of Action, Right? They Want A Hero. There Are Certain Things That Have To Be Compatible With The Way The Audience Is Thinking About It. If You Take Some Other Film, Like No Country For Old Men, You Can End Up With All Kinds Of Crazy Reactions.

I Got Involved With An Acting School And Studied For A Couple Years. They Used To Have Improv Exercises That You Would Work On And You Would Do Improvs.