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.

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.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

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.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

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.