An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.
I'm fascinated that people drawn to cults want to know what to do. And people want to know what to think. And people want to know how to feel. Not just what to feel but how to feel.
Brad Bird is fond of saying that music is the easiest thing that can derail a film because if it slightly goes a degree off track it will take the viewer in the wrong emotional direction. To work with people who actually care about that is a good thing.
Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.
Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they're left alone to settle, they'll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.
Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.
I am trying to be guided by my passion.
Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
