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Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

Acting is acting.

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.

I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.

For me, the more talented the actor is that I'm working with, the easier my job is because the circumstances of a scene are easier to believe when the people around you are in the moment just as much as you are.