Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.