On Acting and Art
Acting is a storytelling process, and to play those stories, we must invest ourselves profoundly in
the place of the story. Perhaps it's not so much acting as it is being. Without that being, there's
no way to convey the importance of being a human being.
The idea of art is to reveal, to let us know an experience we didn't have a moment ago. The experience
to struggle to understand. Given a choice between a soul and a Mercedes, people will generally choose
what they can feel. My challenge has always been not to sell my soul for that Mercedes, although now
that I own one, I hope that I retain my soul.
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