I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices.
The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience
Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.
You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.
My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.
My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.
The characters created cannot just be a mouthpiece for the writer. When you look at a piece of writing, and it's genuine and it doesn't feel like every character is just a mouthpiece for the writer, but that they've been created in such a way that they're expressing an idea that a writer wants to get across, that's when a story succeeds.
It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.