The World Motivation
I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.
“I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.”
I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.
Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.
These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.
The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.
Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
I want to be there for all those who are left behind in this world, whether it's because they are born poor, born a woman, or born in an area affected by devastation.
A really special part of acting to me is to be able to make an audience feel, and for you not to be affected and not to use it as a tool for therapy, because that defeats the objective of the craft not being for me, but for the audience members.
What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.