Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
I'm going to be your grandpa! I have the biggest smile. I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.
I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.
You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.
That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.
It is better to look good than to feel good.
Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.
Between Twitter and Facebook I have nearly 70,000 followers, so my colleagues receive the responses. They show some of them to me, and I am always interested to read what people have to say. I filter all the information that reaches me, from letters in the newspaper, to conversations. There are many influences that shape my decisions, and often people on Twitter are thinking along the same lines as I do on an issue.
Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.