Careers Quotes

Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.

I took a break, which turned into a longer break. But I’m interested in anything that I would find interesting. I still get the occasional query about a film or television role.

Motown was like a fairy tale that happened to have come true. Songwriting was my love and everything I did was to protect that love. I didn’t like how my songs were being arranged, so I started arranging them. I didn’t like how they were being produced, so I started producing them. I didn’t like […]

Writing is something I’ve never particularly liked doing, but I’m better than I used to be.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Every piece I commit to has to feel meaningful and not just like I’m working because I’m afraid I’m never going to work again.

The fact is, I have a thriving career in film. I’ve worked for 30 years in that industry, and it’s something I’m really proud of.

My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did […]

The profession of acting, the basic art of acting, is a monstrous thing because it does with the same flesh-and-blood muscles with which you perform ordinary deeds, real deeds. The body with which you make real love is the same body with which you make fictitious love with someone you don’t like. In no other […]

Our school has principles but no rules. The ‘method’ is a basic means of solving actors’ problems.