I Don't Think I'm Sharp

I Could Draw Ideas. I Remember Writing A Paper For A Seminar Class. I Remember Writing A Paper About - And This Is Going To Sound Really Sort Of Pretentious, But That's Where My Mind Was At The Time - How Acting And The Performing Artist Can Really Be Like A Bodhisattva, How They Can Communicate Ultimately An Idea In A Way That Can Move And Shift Things. And That Was Wonderful. I Didn't Know Many Classes Where I Could Try And Relate The Thing That I Really Loved And Wanted To Do Into An Intellectual Idea, And That Happened To Be One Of Them.

Don't Listen To What Anybody Says Except The People Who Encourage You. If It's What You Want To Do And It's Within Yourself, Then Keep Going And Try To Do It For The Rest Of Your Life.

I'm Always Nervous About It. You Know, Somehow, Without Even Knowing It, I Try And Recreate The Idea Of What It Feels Like To Go In Front Of An Audience Every Night When I'm Making A Film. And That Similar Type Of Pressure And Excitement Before A Scene, Or Preparing For A Movie, So...

I Like The Conscious Manipulation That A Great Director Can Have. When You're Both Complicit In The Manipulation Of An Emotion.

I Wasn't Really Quite Sure Where Heath Ledger Came From, And I Think That's The Feeling Most People Got When They Were Around Him And Why He Was So Extraordinary.