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I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.

When I'm acting, I'm just worried about that piece of the pie, contributing to the whole. But when you're directing, you... get the vision out of your head and on the stage.

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

It's difficult to articulate how I know it's the right actor, but I do. It's instinct. Intuition.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.